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21 May 2021, 2:01 am
-led invasion of Iraq deposed the despotic regime of Saddam Hussein and ushered in a bloody new chapter in that country's history—one that, in many ways, Iraq and the United States are still working their way through today. [read post]
10 May 2021, 9:20 am
Idi Amin, Saddam Hussein, and Elon Musk serves no purpose in our system of justice. [read post]
12 Apr 2021, 8:18 am
Ramsey Clark, who championed civil rights and liberties as attorney general in the Johnson administration, then devoted much of the rest of his life to defending unpopular causes and infamous people, including Saddam Hussein and others accused of war crimes, died on Friday at his home in Manhattan. [read post]
2 Mar 2021, 10:38 am
—under the 2001 AUMF targeting the perpetrators of the 9/11 attack, or the 2002 AUMF against Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq), even though it pretty obviously doesn't. [read post]
3 Feb 2021, 6:01 am
One of the first efforts being made by progressives in the new Congress is to repeal the 2001 and 2002 authorizations for the use of military force (AUMFs) used by presidents for military operations across the greater Middle East over the past two decades. [read post]
18 Nov 2020, 10:50 am
The two countries cut trade ties after Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990. [read post]
21 Aug 2020, 7:19 pm
Can we still use "founding fathers" or will the blog be defunded and the statute being erected to Rumpole in parking lot 26 that no one uses any more be tumbled like a cheap Saddam Hussein knockoff?). [read post]
4 Aug 2020, 5:33 am
The fourth, on May 9, 2008, was "Does this statue of Martin Luther King, Jr. look too much like that statue of Saddam Hussein we pulled down in Baghdad? [read post]
2 Aug 2020, 7:01 am
Conventional explanations for the attack assert that Saddam Hussein was either greedily attempting to grab his neighbor’s oil resources or needily attempting to limit Kuwait’s oil output in order to raise oil prices and escape from a deepening economic crisis caused by falling oil prices and Iraq’s large debts, incurred during the Iran-Iraq War. [read post]
23 Jul 2020, 3:18 pm
On August 2, 1990, Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi army invaded the nation state of Kuwait. [read post]
9 Jun 2020, 5:00 am
Second, in 1990, when the U.S. became concerned with the Iraqi military buildup on the border with Kuwait, instead of sending a clear message to Saddam Hussein, the “State Department prepared equivocal statements for the Administration about American commitments to Kuwait. [read post]
2 Jun 2020, 2:08 pm
I’ve spoken to Iraquis who tell me that life under Saddam Hussein, an evil man who kept the peace, was better for them than the incompetent and chaotic first years after George W. [read post]
21 May 2020, 6:30 am
As with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, Yugoslavia presented the ominous question of whether such a truly multi-national polity could be kept together without the presence of a strong dictator like Marshal Tito, a key leader in the resistance against the Nazis during World War II. [read post]
21 Apr 2020, 3:30 am
He went on to represent infamous clients like Saddam Hussein, the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), and President of Syria Bashar Al-Assad. [read post]
20 Apr 2020, 12:01 pm
Perhaps most notably, the UN Security Council, which had immunized Iraqi oil and gas from creditor attachment after the fall of Saddam Hussein, today is too riven to come up with a robust statement calling COVID-19 a threat to international peace and security. [read post]
16 Apr 2020, 11:36 am
For example, Iraq’s dictator Saddam Hussein made a very rare foreign trip to meet Saudi King Fahd in Taif on Aug. 6, 1980. [read post]
11 Mar 2020, 12:28 pm
Speaking at Brigham Young University Law School on March 5, Defense Department General Counsel Paul C. [read post]
18 Feb 2020, 2:46 pm
Bush vetoed an earlier version of the bill because it would have allowed punitive damages against the Iraqi government for the conduct of Saddam Hussein’s regime; the version that was eventually enacted included a presidential waiver provision to address this concern. [read post]
6 Feb 2020, 11:11 am
Both the Bush and Obama administrations construed the 2002 AUMF to provide the domestic legal authority for armed conflict against Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq, and for military force against armed militia groups that sought to drive U.S. forces out of Iraq after the regime fell.14 I personally do not believe the 2001 AUMF covers armed conflict against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, or, as some have argued, that the 2002 AUMF for Iraq can be stretched to have justified lethal… [read post]
16 Jan 2020, 12:57 pm
-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein 17 years ago.In Syria, meanwhile, the Khomeinist satrap Bashar al-Assad and the Russian air force continued their immolation of the towns and cities of Idlib this week. [read post]
