Yet would we nod approvingly if President Bush blamed the failure of U.S. efforts to pacify post-invasion Iraq on Saddam Hussein? |
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Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, its former ally, on the pretext, never proven, that Kuwait was pilfering oil from Iraq. |
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But an uncaged tyrant like Saddam demanded a posture at once more nimble and aggressive. |
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The broader goal was to oust Saddam in order to build a beautiful democracy in the Middle East and thereby transform the region. |
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The opposition was discredited, especially the mujahedin e Khalq, which supported Saddam and Iraq. |
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After all, al Qaeda and ISIS have sporadically fought with one another, and the Saddam regime is long gone. |
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In 1981, while the world condemned us, we sent our air force to destroy the Osirak reactor Saddam Hussein was building in Iraq. |
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Even King Hussein of Jordan, one of the wisest leaders of his generation in the world was enamored of Saddam. |
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He could not bring himself to say that he would have opposed the invasion of Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein. |
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When Saddam Hussein began a campaign of assassinating Iraqi dissidents living in Jordan, I was added to the hit list. |
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The Bush administration launched the 2003 Iraq War with a decapitation strike aimed at killing Saddam Hussein. |
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In 1988 Saddam Hussein used gas to slaughter thousands of men, women, and children in the Kurdish city of halabja. |
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The Anglo-American forces that invaded Iraq in March 2003 did so for the purpose of deposing Saddam Hussein. |
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When Saddam Hussein tried to challenge us from within, we thrashed him in the Gulf War. |
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On 10 April, a rumor emerged that Saddam Hussein and his top aides were in a mosque complex in the Al Az'Amiyah District of Baghdad. |
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One Marine was killed and 20 were wounded, but neither Saddam or any of his top aides were found. |
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One widely publicized event was the dramatic toppling of a large statue of Saddam in Baghdad's Firdos Square. |
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The Marine Corps colonel in the area saw the Saddam statue as a target of opportunity and decided that the statue must come down. |
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The New York Times ran a number of articles describing Saddam Hussein's attempts to build weapons of mass destruction. |
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Similarly, Saddam Hussein's formal rule of Iraq is often recorded as beginning in 1979, the year he assumed the Presidency of Iraq. |
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The country hadn't pumped that much oil since 1979, when Saddam Hussein rose to power. |
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Baghdad, Iraq's capital city, fell to American troops in April 2003 and Saddam Hussein's government quickly dissolved. |
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Bahrain opposed the invasion of Iraq and had offered Saddam Hussein asylum in the days prior to the invasion. |
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Blair denied that he would have supported the invasion of Iraq even if he had thought Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction. |
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Torture, indeed, like enslavement, has traditionally been iconic of pure evil, the practice of a Sauron or a Saddam Hussein. |
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But the same would be true of members of Saddam Hussein's secular Ba'athist party. |
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Baqar Hussain and Saddam Hussain were proclaimed the best in Marksmanship and Watermanship respectively. |
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This meant that even if Saddam sought to capitulate, it would not suffice. |
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Baghdad refuses to relinquish the region, which Saddam sought to Arabise by driving out the Kurds and implanting Sunni Arabs. |
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Under Saddam Hussein, the Yazidi were not subjected to overt religious persecution, though they remained under pressure to Arabize their culture. |
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Politics is the art of the possible, not tricky-dick Nixon necrosis, Assad asininity, Gaddafi grave grovelling or Saddam spite. |
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On March 16, 2006, angry Kurds in Halabja, Iraq, tore down a monument dedicated to the memory of the 1988 poison gas attacks by Saddam Hussein. |
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Jamal said that the role he was nominated for is not to portray the late Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. |
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Within days of taking power, Saddam Hussein summoned about 400 top officials and announced he had uncovered a plot against the ruling party. |
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Of course Saddam Hussein tended to repress or kill most of his opponents. |
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Bush gave Saddam Hussein 48 hours to leave the country, along with his sons Uday and Qusay, or face war. |
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Had Saddam taken only the Rumaila oil field and the Bubiyan and Warba islands, there would have been no casus belli. |
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Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and the central leadership went into hiding as the coalition forces completed the occupation of the country. |
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These missions led to the initial air strikes against Saddam and his generals. |
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Although the strike against Saddam was unsuccessful in killing him, it effectively ended his ability to command and control his forces. |
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Bush administration because they allowed Saddam to remain in power, an outcome viewed as unacceptable. |
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Now I happen to believe the regime of Saddam is a very brutal and repressive regime, I think it does enormous damage to the Iraqi people. |
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And we know that after September 11, Saddam Hussein's regime gleefully celebrated the terrorist attacks on America. |
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Throughout 2002, the Bush administration insisted that removing Saddam from power to restore international peace and security was a major goal. |
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The Bush administration asserted that the Saddam government had sought to purchase yellowcake uranium from Niger. |
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These missions led to the initial strikes against Saddam Hussein and his key generals. |
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At the Saddam Canal, another 18 Marines were killed in heavy fighting with Iraqi soldiers. |
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A Marine from Marine Air Control Group 28 was killed by enemy fire, and two Marine engineers drowned in the Saddam Canal. |
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The overthrow of Sunni Saddam Hussein in 2006 gave Shias a chance to take revenge. |
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Mr Blair outlined how his government viewed a change in the calculous of risk posed by Saddam Hussein, following the World Trade Center attacks. |
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And he said there was no evidence to link Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to the September 11 skyjacks. |
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The war in Iraq was not about Saddam Hussain, weapons of mass destruction or any other of the spurious other smokescreens. |
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Would you rather have him face down Saddam Hussein or surrender to soap-box moralisers who pretend to believe that no other politician ever lied? |
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Howard Dean has climbed into his own spider hole of denial if he believes that the capture of Saddam Hussein has not made America safer. |
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Respite is at hand with the customisation of the Saddam Spider Hole,offering respite from the jibes of Evertonians. |
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Page 3, usually devoted to female semi-nudity, showed Saddam wearing a white Arab galabia robe as he did laundry by hand. |
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There was a pretense that the Taliban, Saddam, Gaddafi, or Assad were demonically evil and without any true supporters. |
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Robert was at sea for 86 days as his civilian ship carried missiles and depth charges to the Gulf for the war against Saddam Hussein. |
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Among those backing our campaign are PM Gordon Brown and Major Gen Patrick Cordingley, who led the Desert Rats against Saddam Hussein. |
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Iran's shah still ruled from his Peacock Throne, while in Iraq a young Saddam Hussein was plotting his path to power. |
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The US keeps reminding us about the poison gas attack on the Kurdish village of Halabja, carried out by Saddam. |
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Saddam Hussein was not present, nor were any members of the Iraqi leadership. |
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I AM disappointed at the media's sanitization of British and American involvement in the rise to power of Saddam Hussain. |
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The relationship of Saddam Hussein to the development of the visual arts needs much examination and elaboration that is beyond the purpose of this essay. |
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After the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003, the rise of sectarian tensions in the Middle East translated in Syria into rumours of a 'Shiitisation' of the country. |
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Although the forces of Saddam Hussein made several early advances, by mid 1982, the Iranian forces successfully managed to drive the Iraqi army back into Iraq. |
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I trust this is the beginning of decisive action to limit the power and arrogance of Saddam Hussein,'' Dole told his audience of about 3,200 Legionnaires. |
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Many Iraqis celebrated the downfall of Saddam by vandalizing the many portraits and statues of him together with other pieces of his cult of personality. |
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The next day, another brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division attacked into downtown Baghdad and occupied one of the palaces of Saddam Hussein in fierce fighting. |
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The Iraqi Kurds then rose against Saddam and evicted him from their homeland and were protected by RAF jets for a further 12 years until Saddam was ousted. |
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He additionally offered petroleum concessions, but stopped short of having Saddam give up power, instead suggesting that elections could be held in two years. |
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The Arabs, many of whom were moved to the area by Saddam in his campaign to Arabise Kurkuk and dilute Kurdish influence, are fighting for their own stake in the new Iraq. |
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Saddam accepted the resolution on 13 November and inspectors returned to Iraq under the direction of UNMOVIC chairman Hans Blix and IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei. |
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During the invasion, foreign volunteers traveled to Iraq from Syria and took part in the fighting, usually under the command of the Fedayeen Saddam. |
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Since Saddam Hussein came to power in 1979, the Iraqi dinar has collapsed. |
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May was the month of scandals, like Newsweek's Quran in the toilet and the New York Post's display of prisoner Saddam Hussein in his jockey shorts. |
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The UN security council is edging towards a compromise resolution on Iraq demanding unfettered access for weapons inspectors to Saddam Hussein's eight presidential palaces. |
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