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...country broken in pieces that we will be helping rebuild for years to come. And so what is the gift this capture has brought? Perhaps a true taste of freedom from fear for 25 million people who could never quite have faith that the tyranny was over while the tyrant was still loose. It was an antidote to the contempt expressed by Arab and European commentators who poked the American tiger: See, you can?t even catch Saddam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ?We Got Him.? | 12/14/2003 | See Source »

...Ladies and gentlemen, we got him,? Ambassador L. Paul Bremer, tears in his eyes, told the news conference, which erupted in cheers. ?Iraq?s future, your future, has never been more full of hope. The tyrant is a prisoner.? From the first moment the American video of Saddam in custody began rolling, Iraqi journalists stood and screamed. Some yelled, ?Kill him! Kill Saddam.? The people of Baghdad caught the spirit of hope and pain, firing bullets into the sky and throwing candy, lighting firecrackers in the street. ?They got Saddam!? ?The devil is gone.? It was like a wedding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ?We Got Him.? | 12/14/2003 | See Source »

SADDAM WAS A TERRIBLE TYRANT. DO YOU THINK, IN HINDSIGHT, REMOVING HIM WAS THE RIGHT THING TO DO? Not unilaterally, with a few British troops tagging along. I think it would have been very good to remove him once and for all with an international force, as was envisioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Jimmy Carter | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

...tiny President of one of the world's smallest countries wriggles forward in his armchair, plants tiptoes on the floor and begins the story of his revolutionary days. It's a little-known epic of how a humble teacher endured oppression, rose to lead his island people against a tyrant and finally triumphed, uniting the palm-lined Maldives. Maumoon Abdul Gayoom wears a saintly smile as he stresses that he "did not seek" greatness but rather "a lot of people wanted me to be President... so I accepted." As the man who is now Asia's longest-serving elected leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Paradise Divided | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

...just liberated a nation from a tyrant who spread his lies through a state-run TV network. What do you do next? If you're the Bush Administration, you spread the good news...by setting up a state-run TV network...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All The News That Fits Your Reality | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

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