Word: saddamized
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...before long, and without intending it ... a part of [her] diplomatic arsenal.” Now, we all know that jewelry makes a statement, but it’s hard to believe that the first thing running through most politicians’ minds before a meeting with Saddam Hussein would be “Which brooch would scare him away first...
...believe what you read about Iran's nuclear program. We know as much about it as we did about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. Iran could test a nuke next week, or not for another 20 years. It all depends on who you want to believe...
Sanctions can also strangle ordinary citizens instead of obstinate world leaders. More than 1 million Iraqi civilians died from starvation and inadequate medical services as a result of measures imposed against Saddam in the 1990s, according to some estimates...
...against more than 75 countries. President Franklin D. Roosevelt imposed them as a check on Japanese imperialism in 1940, Ronald Reagan leveled them as a way to combat martial law in Poland, and a legion of leaders have used sanctions in recognition of the atrocities perpetuated in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, Kim Jong Il's North Korea and Burma under the military junta...
...adjective; Safire was a true conservative, and a partisan one too, biffing in print, and not always fairly, political opponents from Bert Lance to Hillary Clinton. He was a cheerleader for some of the more outlandish justifications for the Iraq war, like the supposed link between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, though commentators like David Corn - a former Washington editor of the Nation - delighted in pointing out that the Times' reporting in its news pages had the habit of undercutting the claims that Safire was advancing as fact in his columns...