Word: tyrant
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...RATIONAL PEOPLE agree that Saddam Hussein is a ruthless tyrant who remains a threat to Middle East peace. In fact, the Democratic Congress urged the Bush Administration for years to cut off aid to Iraq for its blatant human rights abuses. Why did President Bush steadfastly support Saddam until the invasion of the Kuwaiti oil fields...
...speech to soldiers and their families at Fort Stewart in / Georgia, Bush stated the thought more nakedly: "When we win, and we will, we will have taught a dangerous dictator, and any tyrant tempted to follow in his footsteps, that the U.S. has a new credibility and that what we say goes...
...Take a Tyrant At his Word...
...Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to be an act of war. Kuwait was exceeding its OPEC limits at the time. But a senior State Department official dismissed the statement as "typical exaggerated rhetoric." Says the same official today: "I guess there is a lesson here: Take a tyrant at his word...
...torturing his political enemies, of gassing his own people, or using hostages as human shields. His wartime conduct was equally unacceptable: widespread lynchings of Kuwaitis, tons of oil dumped and ignited, civilians reportedly clustered around military targets, numerous Scuds launched toward a non-combatant nation, Israel. Such a vicious tyrant could not be permitted to emerge from his confrontation with the West as a hero to the Arab world...