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12 Dec 2016, 8:47 am by Susan Hennessey, Benjamin Wittes
He began by ridiculing the intelligence community as “the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. [read post]
3 Dec 2016, 11:56 am by Tom Smith
“What we can say about Saddam Hussein is that he’s a brave man,” Castro said. [read post]
28 Nov 2016, 5:41 am
"Although a separate authorization was acquired in 2002 to go to war against Saddam Hussein in Iraq, it is the 2001 authorization that President Obama has relied on whenever he's felt a need to say that Congress has authorized the war with ISIS, and Congress hasn't pushed back. [read post]
24 Nov 2016, 3:30 am by Jessica Dufresne
Notamment impliqué dans le procès de Milosevic au Tribunal pénal international pour l’ex-Yougoslavie, Monsieur Dicker a observé de près celui de Saddam Hussein, qu’il a grandement critiqué en raison de l’absence flagrante de respect des droits de cet accusé. [read post]
21 Nov 2016, 1:18 pm by Quinta Jurecic
Reuters updates us on the ongoing offensive, which is becoming the biggest battle in Iraq since the downfall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. [read post]
15 Nov 2016, 8:08 am by Tom Smith
Bolton was one of the loudest advocates of overthrowing Saddam Hussein and still stupefyingly insists it was the right call 13 years later. [read post]
7 Nov 2016, 6:17 am by Jimmy Chalk
 Since 2005, Kurdistan has sought to annex the disputed territory by employing two provisions of the federal constitution: Article 140, which mandates the reversal of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s Arabization policies; and Article 119, which provides governorates the opportunity to become new regions (or to join existing regions) by referendum. [read post]
3 Nov 2016, 10:30 am by Kemal Kirisci
The leader of the opposition, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, has remarked that Turkey now resembles a semi-open prison and accused the government of building a “Baathist regime” (resembling Bashar Assad’s Syria or Saddam Hussein’s Iraq) in Turkey. [read post]
29 Oct 2016, 1:27 am by INFORRM
Saddam Hussein’s Iraq had invaded Kuwait, and H&K’s brief was to persuade US citizens that American military involvement in the Gulf was vital to save a fledgling democracy from the hands of a brutal dictator. [read post]
26 Oct 2016, 6:24 am by J. Paul Pope
PDF version  Review of David Priess's The President’s Book of Secrets: The Untold Story of Intelligence Briefings to America’s Presidents from Kennedy to Obama (PublicAffairs, 2016). *** The writings of eminent practitioners of the craft of intelligence analysis—John McLaughlin, Mark Lowenthal, Tom Fingar, and others—all emphasize the centrality of the relationship between analysts and the policy makers they support in assessing whether… [read post]
18 Oct 2016, 5:29 am by Daniel Byman
In 2003, U.S. forces overthrow Saddam Hussein’s government with relative ease. [read post]
17 Oct 2016, 6:59 am by Chuck Cosson
  For example, the full execution of Saddam Hussein was surreptitiously recorded with a mobile phone and leaked to the Internet, in violation of Iraqi law.[15]  The wife of Keith Lamont Scott, killed by police in 2016, took a mobile phone video of the incident, which was widely shared online and by news organizations, contributing to public understanding of that tragic event.[16]  A mobile phone video related to the alleged robbery of Kim Kardashian in Paris was also… [read post]
5 Oct 2016, 5:40 pm by John Bellinger
  Among other things, the amendments would have allowed lawsuits against Iraq for acts of terrorism during the Saddam Hussein regime even though the Secretary of State had removed Iraq from the list of  state sponsors of terrorism. [read post]
5 Oct 2016, 9:13 am by Zachary Burdette, Quinta Jurecic
Vice Presidential candidates Senator Tim Kaine and Governor Mike Pence faced off at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia last night in the only debate between the running mates. [read post]
26 Sep 2016, 9:31 am by Daniel Byman
After 9/11, American forces overthrew the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein in Iraq. [read post]
21 Sep 2016, 12:58 pm by Michael Froomkin
Honestly, I see trump winning this – I see Hillary setting up Assad as another Saddam Hussein – she clearly hasn’t learned her lesson. [read post]
11 Sep 2016, 8:00 am by Jon Katz
George Bush II justified the American military’s post-September 11 invasion of Afghanistan as part of the war on terrorism, and the 2003 invasion of Iraq as a way to contain Saddam Hussein from using weapons that it turned out he did not have. [read post]
29 Aug 2016, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
It mentions that Bush justified the war by claims that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and connections to al-Qaida terrorists — almost all of which turned out to be false. [read post]
9 Aug 2016, 7:49 am by Stephen Griffin
  Do you recall any social or political movement demanding that Saddam Hussein be removed? [read post]
3 Aug 2016, 12:54 pm by Rishabh Bhandari, Quinta Jurecic
A palace built by Saddam Hussein in Mosul, and which ISIS had been using as a training center, was bombed by UK and coalition forces. [read post]