Word: saddamism
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...toppling of Saddam Hussein’s regime in 2003 offered no relief, said Dr. Mohammed, now a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute...
...Rosen ’74 signed a notorious open letter from the neo-conservative Project for a New American Century to President Bush advocating regime change in Baghdad. “Any strategy aiming at the eradication of terrorism and its sponsors must include a determined effort to remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq,” the letter read. Five years after the invasion, Rosen said in a recent interview that he is not sure whether the war in Iraq has actually served as a deterrent. “Whether we are killing more al-Qaida members than...
Bombs were already falling over Baghdad as Michael G. Ignatieff and Kanan Makiya sat having drinks in a Cambridge restaurant. It was March 19, 2003. The ultimatum President George W. Bush had given Saddam Hussein—leave Iraq or we invade—had just expired. The mood of the two friends was somber. Both men were humanitarians who had become prominent advocates of war in Iraq. That evening, they had participated in a panel discussion at Harvard’s Institute of Politics on “War in Iraq: An Advance or Setback to Middle East Peace...
...first four-star officer to lose his job for verbal missteps. General Michael Duggan was fired as Air Force chief of staff by then-defense secretary Dick Cheney in 1990 for telling reporters traveling with him about Air Force attack options to help drive Iraq out of Kuwait following Saddam Hussein's invasion of that country earlier that year. In 1995, Admiral Richard Macke, then the head of Pacific Command, was ousted after telling reporters over breakfast that sailors and Marines who beat and raped a 12-year-old Japanese girl should have hired a prostitute instead of paying...
...Iraqi minister of (mis?)information, became famous for claiming in April of 2003 that coalition forces were “not even 100 miles from Baghdad. They are not anywhere; they are selling illusions to others.” Within two days, U.S. troops entered Baghdad. Baghdad was lost, Saddam Hussein was hanged, but the words of MSS are still alive today on coffee mugs and T shirts. While MSS knew his carefully chosen words were untrue, he realized their impact on the people of Iraq. The only sources of information to the Iraqis were state-controlled, and conjuring...