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2 Mar 2022, 8:39 pm by Tom Smith
Air Force launched its 'shock and awe' campaign in an attempt to kill Saddam Hussein and other key leaders and bring down the government. [read post]
24 Feb 2022, 4:30 am by Michael C. Dorf
Bush and his allies also cited Saddam Hussein's oppression of his own people as a justification for war. [read post]
22 Feb 2022, 3:15 pm by Steve Gottlieb
Iran has strong democratic institutions in spite of the Guardian Counsel, had its own reasons to condemn Saddam Hussein and the Taliban, and repeatedly offered to negotiate disagreements with the US. [read post]
20 Feb 2022, 7:01 am by Ben Connable
This failure of Iraqi will to fight cut Saddam Hussein’s combat power in half. [read post]
13 Feb 2022, 7:01 am by Katherine Harvey
Like most of the Shiite Islamists who took positions of power in post-2003 Iraq, Maliki had fought Saddam Hussein’s regime from inside Iran during the 1980s. [read post]
4 Feb 2022, 10:44 am
Qurayshi, whose real name was Amir Mohammed Abdul Rahman al-Mawli al-Salbi, was an officer in Saddam Hussein’s army before joining al-Qaeda after the American invasion of 2003. [read post]
9 Dec 2021, 11:45 am by Mary Jane Wilmoth
Bush’s planned invasion of Iraq in 2003 is skeptical of the President’s claim that Saddam Hussein has “weapons of mass destruction. [read post]
2 Dec 2021, 9:05 am by David Priess
Trump’s campaign derided the IC’s judgments about Russian interference in the 2016 contest with the barb, “These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. [read post]
21 Oct 2021, 1:39 pm by Tom Smith
He insisted that Iraq’s leader, Saddam Hussein, was overseeing a secret program to make weapons of mass destruction. [read post]
11 Oct 2021, 11:06 am by Emily Dai
  Voter turnout in Iraq’s parliamentary elections Monday was reported to be 41 percent, a record low in the post-Saddam Hussein era, says AP News. [read post]
11 Sep 2021, 8:12 am by Bruce Riedel
Bush was obsessed with the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and deliberately misled the American people about who was responsible for the 9/11 attack. [read post]
10 Sep 2021, 12:45 pm by Hina Shamsi
It needs to do so by repealing the 2001 and 2002 Authorizations for use of Military Force (authorizing the wars in Afghanistan and against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq), which presidents from Bush to Obama to Trump have invoked to justify lethal force and detention far beyond Congress’ original purpose. [read post]
29 Aug 2021, 7:49 am by Simon Lester
Former State Department official Evan Feigenbaum was recently part of an oral history project on the George W. [read post]
26 Aug 2021, 9:40 am by David Priess
An old adage in foreign policy circles—heard most often from policymakers at the White House or the State Department or the Pentagon—is that there are no policy failures, only intelligence failures. [read post]
19 Aug 2021, 10:24 am by Anoush Baghdassarian, Todd Carney
In Operation Pacific Haven, the U.S. armed forces airlifted to Guam three successive groups of Iraqi Kurds who had fled to Turkey after threats by Saddam Hussein against those who had assisted the U.S., as well as against organizations receiving financial support from Western agencies. [read post]
20 Jul 2021, 3:04 pm by Ilya Somin
While the three senators are right to seek total repeal of the 1957 and 1991 AUMFs (both of which are moribund, anyway) and the 2002 Iraq AUMF (aimed at Saddam Hussein's long-defunct regime), I would prefer to revise and narrow rather than completely repeal the 2001 "War on Terror" AUMF, as I think there are good reasons to continue military operations against some radical Islamist groups in the Middle East. [read post]
17 Jul 2021, 4:08 pm by INFORRM
The BBC has developed a reputation for arrogantly brushing off criticism and failing to acknowledge and rectify mistakes before the consequent damage to its reputation has been done. [read post]
14 Jul 2021, 8:57 am by Katherine Harvey, Bruce Riedel
King Hussein was Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s closest ally at the time, visiting Baghdad often during the war. [read post]
14 Jul 2021, 7:51 am by Patrick Hulme
On June 17, the House of Representatives voted in favor of a resolution introduced by Rep. [read post]