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2 May 2011, 7:39 am
" For the triumphalists out there, I would point out that neither the capture nor the execution of Saddam Hussein significantly changed our fortunes in Iraq. [read post]
26 Apr 2011, 7:12 am
After 9/11, the Bush Administration decided to invade Iraq to oust Saddam Hussein. [read post]
21 Apr 2011, 8:18 am
While last October’s Baghdad church attack which killed some sixty Christians is widely known—actually receiving some MSM coverage—the fact is, Christian life in Iraq has been a living hell ever since U.S. forces ousted the late Saddam Hussein in 2003. [read post]
19 Apr 2011, 1:42 pm
Johnson and Johnson has agreed to pay $70 million, following allegations that subsidiaries of the company used improper bribes in foreign countries, including payments to Saddam Hussein, in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Policies Act.The deferred prosecution agreement with the Department of Justice also requires that the company take additional measures to prevent future transgressions. [read post]
18 Apr 2011, 2:30 pm
Indeed, he has actually entered another war — this time without congressional authorization, and despite the fact that Muammar Qaddafi’s regime poses little threat to US national security interests, and does not have nearly as extensive a record of mass murder as Saddam Hussein did in Iraq.A few antiwar liberal Democrats, such as Rep. [read post]
12 Apr 2011, 10:57 pm
And he's offered his services to Slobodan Milosevic, who decided to self-represent before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and Saddam Hussein, whose family opted for other counsel in the trial before the Iraqi Special Criminal Court.And so the Gbagbo defense prepares even before the Gbagbo prosecution begins. [read post]
11 Apr 2011, 3:28 am
“Mr Stiassny had falsely labelled Paragon insolvent and lied to the Court about it; overcharged for accounting services; carried out dishonest and deceptive accounting practices; lied to the Professional Conduct Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants; amassed a huge fortune through acting dishonestly; stolen Paragon’s technology; been guilty of serious criminal conduct; committed perjury; acted in a manner worse than the criminals of the Enron scandal; [and] was to be… [read post]
7 Apr 2011, 2:01 pm
There are plenty of reasons to question whether the “marketplace of ideas” is a reliable method of determining social truth — certainly, one can think of plenty of examples where prevailing political truths in this country have been demonstrably at odds with objective historical or scientific fact — think about Saddam Hussein’s supposed weapons of mass destruction, or of the numerous state laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution, for example. [read post]
4 Apr 2011, 8:47 am
Nevertheless, the four specified crimes can encompass situations of abusive governments or non-state actors inflicting environmental damage.In Iraq, for example, Saddam Hussein's destruction of the natural resources essential to living conditions of the Marsh Arabs could have been considered “deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated” to bring about the physical destruction of the group in whole or in part.The ICISS formulation calls for intervention… [read post]
29 Mar 2011, 2:10 pm
Whether protesting for peace or calling for war, these liberals once again convinced themselves of the moral superiority of their positions.While one can make the moral argument that countries can be attacked strictly on humanitarian grounds, that argument is laughable when it comes to Libya.How can the left call for the ouster of Muammar Qadhafi for the sin of killing hundreds of Libyans when it opposed the war waged against Saddam Hussein? [read post]
TIME FOR REGIME CHANGE IN SYRIA? “The ingredients that brought down Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in Tuni…
27 Mar 2011, 5:43 am
Every Arab ‘republic’ has been a republic of fear, but only Saddam Hussein’s Iraq surpassed the Assads’ Syria in number of victims. [read post]
SYRIA’S MOMENT? “Syrians in the town of Deraa have overthrown a statue of the late dictator Hafez A…
26 Mar 2011, 5:46 am
This heroic feat brings to mind the tremendous moment in Baghdad when the statue of Saddam Hussein was toppled. [read post]
21 Mar 2011, 8:06 am
I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. [read post]
17 Mar 2011, 4:31 pm
Swap out Saddam for Muammar Gaddafi and it's as true today as it was then. [read post]
13 Mar 2011, 4:01 pm
**Relating to Saddam Hussein having biological weapons. [read post]
FORMER FRENCH PRESIDENT JACQUES CHIRAC TO STAND TRIAL FOR CORRUPTION. And that means an excuse to r…
6 Mar 2011, 11:51 am
And that means an excuse to run my favorite Chirac-related picture, from the protests outside the French Embassy back when France was trying to save Saddam Hussein — for, as it turned out, rather corrupt motives. [read post]
22 Feb 2011, 11:44 am
While we are not pacifists, warmongering is a crime in Germany: The Guardian (HT: Bruce) writes that "a German politician has warned that the CIA informant Curveball could go to jail after telling the Guardian that he lied about Saddam Hussein's bioweapons capability in order to 'liberate' Iraq. [read post]
15 Feb 2011, 7:49 pm
"Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, codenamed Curveball by German and American intelligence officials who dealt with his claims, has told the Guardian that he fabricated tales of mobile bioweapons trucks and clandestine factories in an attempt to bring down the Saddam Hussein regime, from which he had fled in 1995. [read post]
15 Feb 2011, 10:55 am
Longtime readers of “The Wall of Separation” might remember William “Jerry” Boykin, an Army general who in 2003 sparked controversy for giving speeches to fundamentalist Christian audiences during which he asserted, among other things, that Muslims worship idols and that the real enemy of America is not Osama bin Laden or Saddam Hussein but Satan. [read post]
15 Feb 2011, 7:06 am
Perhaps Judge Alex Kozinski, referencing Scott Turow of all people, put it best in dissenting from the 9th Circuit’s refusal to rehear en banc a case in which Vanna White successfully sued Samsung for violating her “right of publicity” by “appropriating” her “identity,” emphasizing that overprotecting intellectual property is as dangerous as underprotecting it (footnotes omitted): Saddam Hussein wants to keep advertisers from using his… [read post]
