Word: tyrant
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...United States should not remove Saddam Hussein because his government is undemocratic, but because he is Saddam Hussein. There is, after all, a distinction between a dictator and a murderous tyrant. It is Saddam, not the lack of democracy, that stands in the way of U.S. goals in Iraq. Nothing in the definition of dictatorship rules out cooperation with thorough inspections, opening the country to the international market, maintaining territorial cohesion and improving human rights...
...week's astonishing events just convince him that he's been right all along? When word leaked of North Korea's secret nuclear program, the President's critics were quick to claim that he had become a prisoner of his doctrine. How could Bush go to war against one tyrant because he might be developing nuclear weapons while negotiating with another who just admitted that he has them? If everyone is either with us or against us, what does Bush do now about Pakistan, our ally in the war on terrorism, if it was the source of North Korea...
...that North Korea ranks among the armed and dangerous “outlaw regimes” led by a “murderous tyrant,” however, Bush cannot seem to draw distinctions fast enough. Where we were told two weeks ago that only our righteous military might could save us, the administration now calls for a “peaceful resolution” in North Korea. Before news of North Korea, Bush warned that “our security requires that we confront both [terror cells and outlaw regimes], and the United States military is capable of confronting...
When White House spokesperson Scott McClellan explained last Thursday what sets Iraq apart, he never bothered to actually describe the situation in North Korea. “Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction are controlled by a murderous tyrant who has already used chemical weapons to kill thousands of people,” he explained without making the contrast explicit, “and the same murderous tyrant has tried to dominate the Middle East and has invaded and brutally occupied a small neighbor as recently as a decade ago.” Not once in his response...
...passive responses to Hussein’s threats would be futile, saying that “weapons inspections are ineffective in the context of a hostile government like Iraq” and official American policy of deterrence against Iraq is an inappropriate for “a risk-taking tyrant like Saddam...