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22 Mar 2018, 4:00 am
Following the rise of the Ayatollah Khomeini, Riyadh backed Saddam Hussein’s war against Tehran, fearing expanding influence of revolutionary Islamist Iran. [read post]
20 Mar 2018, 7:00 am
And indeed, it is fair to say that the regime change in Iraq did become U.S. policy, even though the Iraq Liberation Act did not require any action by the president other than regular reports on his efforts to provide support for Iraqi resistance to Saddam Hussein. [read post]
14 Mar 2018, 2:37 pm
While the 2002 AUMF was originally intended to address the threat posed by the Saddam Hussein regime, it asserts, the United States has since relied on it to authorize operations against al-Qaeda in Iraq—which later became ISIS—for several years, an understanding that Congress tacitly ratified through appropriations. [read post]
12 Feb 2018, 10:46 am
By studying the artistic ambitions of Nero, Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein, Saparmurat Nyyazow and Radovan Karadzic, the studies explore the complicated relationship between poetry and political violence, and open our eyes for the aesthetic dimensions of total power. [read post]
12 Feb 2018, 10:46 am
By studying the artistic ambitions of Nero, Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein, Saparmurat Nyyazow and Radovan Karadzic, the studies explore the complicated relationship between poetry and political violence, and open our eyes for the aesthetic dimensions of total power. [read post]
11 Feb 2018, 7:00 am
. *** The Islamic State has been defeated in Iraq, but another threat continues to have a stranglehold on the Iraqi state—the pernicious corruption that has plagued the country for decades, particularly since the overthrow of the Baathist Saddam Hussein regime. [read post]
9 Feb 2018, 2:00 pm
First, it construes a 2002 Authorization for Use of Military Force against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq as authorizing detention to combat any and every threat emanating from Iraq, effectively indefinitely. [read post]
5 Jan 2018, 10:15 am
Even if a court were to interpret the 2001 AUMF — or the 2002 AUMF authorizing the invasion of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq — as extending to ISIS, this man has a constitutional right to know the government’s reasons for detaining him and to challenge its evidence. [read post]
23 Dec 2017, 7:30 am
Bush's war against Saddam Hussein's regime recycles earlier, similarly specious, arguments made by the Obama administration. [read post]
19 Dec 2017, 5:00 am
Kim Jong Un, looking at Libya and Iraq, might conclude that Muammar Qaddafi and Saddam Hussein would have remained in power today had Libya and Iraq developed deliverable nuclear weapons. [read post]
6 Nov 2017, 4:00 am
Despite the Saddam Hussein regime’s brutal displacement of Kurds and other groups as part of its “Arabization” efforts, the area contains a diverse population that often lives in mixed communities. [read post]
11 Sep 2017, 6:53 pm
Perhaps terrorism is an inevitable result of the end of the Cold War between the United States and the former Soviet Union, and the power vacuum that resulted from removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq. [read post]
23 Aug 2017, 9:30 am
His message of defiance against Saddam Hussein led to al-Sadr’s 1999 assassination and his subsequent elevation as a symbol of Shiite resistance. [read post]
15 Aug 2017, 6:30 am
Sadr’s career has gone through several phases over the past 15 years: The son of a respected Iraqi nationalist Shiite cleric assassinated by Saddam Hussein, Sadr quickly became a kingmaker influential with Iraqi Shiites after the U.S. invasion in 2003. [read post]
13 Aug 2017, 6:30 am
As Americans gathered to watch James Comey testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee, a meme emerged on certain corners of the left-leaning internet: people had a crush on the former FBI director. [read post]
10 Aug 2017, 6:04 am
And how about Saddam Hussein's despicable "Victory Arch"? [read post]
8 Aug 2017, 10:56 am
On July 4, North Korea tested a Hwasong-14 ICBM, rushing closer to posing a major nuclear threat to the U.S. [read post]
16 Jul 2017, 7:00 am
To Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who presided over a Sunni-dominated, secular government ruling a Shi’i majority, Iran’s new Islamic Republic presented a threat to his power. [read post]
27 Jun 2017, 7:30 am
Kristian Ulrichson, a professor and associate fellow at Chatham House, wrote on Twitter that Spicer’s comments evoke the U.S. response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait that Saddam Hussein misinterpreted to mean the United States wouldn’t intervene. [read post]
25 May 2017, 12:11 pm
In Iraq, Iran has played an influential role since the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s regime in 2003. [read post]
