Word: saddamism
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...leader that Congress interrupted him with applause 31 times in a 35-minute speech. Some in the House chamber wiped away tears as Blair told them, "Destiny put you in this place in history, in this moment in time." And if it turns out that he and Bush misjudged Saddam's capabilities? "If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that, at its least, is responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering," Blair declared. "That is something I am confident history will forgive...
...right thing in Iraq?' we are more than happy to have the debate," says a senior Administration official. Vice President Dick Cheney urged House Republicans to mount a more vigorous defense of Bush, and the White House sent lawmakers a list of talking points titled "Why Saddam Hussein Was a Grave and Gathering Danger." But officials concede that their trump card would be to produce some surefire evidence that Iraq is moving toward becoming the stable, peaceful and friendly place they promised it would be. "This is more answered by successes or changes in the landscape in Iraq--an arrest...
...miles north of the city of Tikrit. They reach the compound's metal gate, M-16s locked and loaded. A translator bangs on the door. When an old woman opens up, the troops sweep through the garden and into the house. An intelligence report had said Taha Yasin Ramadan, Saddam Hussein's Vice President, might be in the area...
...raid did turn up some serious firepower: 50 lbs. of C4 plastic explosives, a cache of rifles hidden in the garden and seven AK-47 magazines wrapped in plastic and sunk into a pile of rotting chicken parts. The soldiers also found a Republican Guard uniform and posters of Saddam, and from a field beyond the house they unearthed a telltale box of star-cluster signal flares. "They initiate ambushes with these," says Lieut. Colonel Steve Russell. The flares are further evidence that the Tikrit area, home base for Iraq's fallen leader and his most fervent supporters...
Raids like this, designed to flush out Saddam and his top aides, happen every few days. On one level, they have been successful. In their recent operations around Tikrit, U.S. soldiers with the 4th Infantry Division's 1st Brigade--known as the Raiders--have enjoyed several big scores: they helped special forces nab Saddam's trusted aide Abid Hamid Mahmud, seized more than a ton of plastic explosives and hundreds of weapons and uncovered at a farm more than $9 million in cash plus a buried chest of jewels worth more than $1 million that belonged to Saddam's first...