Word: saddamized
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...addition to repairing an infrastructure in shambles, the Coalition also needed to jump-start the Saddam-era Iraqi economy...
...what of the Iraqis themselves? Perhaps if Secretary Rumsfeld’s plan for an invasion to overthrow Saddam Hussein, install a government of exiled politicians, and quickly withdraw had not been superseded by dreams of whole-scale political reconstruction, some of the damage might have been averted. True, there were not enough American troops to have prevented much of the looting of ministries and other offices. True too that there would have been considerable popular opposition to an American-backed administration, especially from the al-Qaida militants who were already beginning to infiltrate the country. Yet it is easy...
...After the United States overthrew Saddam Hussein in 2003, Feldman had just the qualifications that would make him come in handy. It didn’t hurt that he believed that Islam and democracy are compatible...
...skipped the last two months of school in London, he said, to witness the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s regime. He said it was a moment he had been waiting for “my whole life...
...humor. The title “Elvis is Titanic” refers to one of the many East-meets-West exchanges that dot the book: Elvis and the movie Titanic are both well known in Iraq—select items of American culture that were readily available in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. The memory of the former dictator is everywhere; as Klaus pushes his students to question globalization and its effects on culture, the overwhelming consensus is that being too open to the West is better than the isolating control endured under Saddam...