Word: saddams
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...Bush and then chief of staff Andrew Card lobbied Bush to replace Rumsfeld in 2004? It's a perfect Freudian boggle: if he dumps Rumsfeld, isn't George W. Bush tacitly admitting that his dad was right about a lot of other things too, like choosing not to overthrow Saddam Hussein in 1991? "The hilarious part is everyone in Washington now believes that the only way Bush will change course on Iraq is if Jimmy Baker's [bipartisan] commission shows him the way out," a prominent Republican told me. Former Secretary of State Baker was Bush the Elder's longtime...
...Saddam Trial Delay The verdict could stir violence...
...Still, in order to secure their own long-term survival and calm the dangerous tensions rising in the region - and to make common cause with the U.S. against growing Iranian influence in the Middle East, which grew exponentially as a result of the toppling of Saddam Hussein - the Arab moderates beseeched the Bush Administration to give urgent attention to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But their chances of success are no better now than they ever were. The Bush Administration has shown no inclination to press Israel to accept the basic peace terms advocated by all Arab moderates, including Mahmoud...
...change ... Karl H. Pagac Villeneuve-Loubet, France Torture on Trial Do critics really believe that the murderous terrorists of Al-Qaeda can be reasoned with? [Sept. 18] Appeasers apply the word illegal when evaluating the steps taken by the U.S. and Britain in Iraq. Let us be clear: Saddam Hussein was a butcher. Kofi Annan claims that the countries of the Middle East are unhappy with the actions of the coalition. Does that include those who have declared that Israel should be wiped off the map? It's time some people got out of cloud-cuckoo-land and into reality...
...confusing for the human rights community because Bush has advanced his agenda under the guise and in the language of defending human rights,” Schulz said. “The war in Iraq is descended in the name of humanitarian intervention to protect the world from Saddam and protect the Iraqi people, yet at the same time the world, even the U.S., ignores the true need for humanitarian intervention in Darfur...