Word: tyrants
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...going along with an acceptable tyrant would eliminate much of Bush's rationale for the war--the goal of establishing not only peace but freedom and progress in the region. After all the American promises of planting democracy where it has not grown, it would be hard to walk away content with supplanting one despot with another who promises to repress only his subjects and not the rest of the region. --Reported by Massimo Calabresi, Mark Thompson and Adam Zagorin/Washington; Bruce Crumley/Paris; Meenakshi Ganguly/Baghdad; Aparisim Ghosh/Basra; Scott MacLeod/Cairo; and Paul Quinn-Judge/Moscow
...State of the Union address and has the U.S. scurrying to build a global coalition as it mobilizes for war. This may once have made sense in Washington, where in the aftermath of 9/11, a decision was taken to seek regime change in Iraq. That Saddam is a dangerous tyrant who should be removed from the world stage is indisputable?from both Asian and American points of view. But the Bush Administration's agenda?to resolve the Kim Jong Il problem after Saddam is deposed?may be tipping into obsolescence. Asians wonder at what point Kim Jong Il's weapons...
...Kirtland has been studying how to deliver varying but predictable electrical pulses to inflict increasing levels of harm: to deny, degrade, damage or destroy, to use the Pentagon's parlance. HPM engineers call it "dial-a-hurt." But that hurt can cause unintended problems: beyond taking out a tyrant's silicon chips, HPMs could destroy nearby heart pacemakers and other life-critical electrical systems in hospitals or aboard aircraft (that's why the U.S. military is putting them only on long-range cruise missiles). The U.S. used a more primitive form of these weapons--known as soft bombs--against Yugoslavia...
...Sonia Faddoul and Tamara Ghuniem don't think Saddam is a hero - they know him to be a tyrant who brutalizes his own people. But in a smackdown between the Iraqi dictator and the American president, there's no doubt who they would like to see biting the dust. For the two Jordanian women, both 22, backing Saddam is neither a matter of Arab nationalism nor faith. "When you see one man stand up to the greatest power on Earth," says Sonia, matter-of-factly, "how can you not support the underdog...
...Iraqi officials, United Nations weapons inspectors are really nothing more than spies. When Saddam's government accepted the UN resolution that enabled their return, Foreign Minister Sabri's letter to Secretary General Kofi Annan denounced the U.S. as "the tyrant of the age" whose allegations against Iraq amounted to "wicked slander...