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Soldier says she faced harassment over Muslim name

...soldiers, including her supervisors, mocked her family name and made crude jokes."I was called Sgt. Hussein, as in Saddam Hussein," she said. "Even when I would correct them on the pronunciation of my name, I was still called Sgt. Hussein...

http://juneauempire.com/michael-biesecker/2013-05-09/soldier-says-she-faced-hara
Red line? US says Syria used poison

...out to be flawed intelligence, such as the Bush administration's decision to invade Iraq after concluding that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons.Lawmakers from both parties sounded less than patient...

http://juneauempire.com/not-web/2013-04-26/red-line-us-says-syria-used-poison
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Answering to the veterans of an unjust war

...that's test we failed in 2003 when we let President Bush take the nation to war in Iraq under the false pretenses that Saddam Hussein was acquiring weapons of mass destruction. That's why I'm asking about Obama's omissions regarding the wrongful...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2013-04-03/answering-veterans-unjust-war
Opinion
Sunni protesters dig in as tensions flare in Iraq

...say they are being targeted unfairly by a tough anti-terrorism law and policies designed to weed out members of Saddam Hussein's former regime.Al-Maliki's government has called on security forces to show restraint toward the protesters...

http://juneauempire.com/adam-schreck/2013-02-20/sunni-protesters-dig-tensions-fl
This day in History: Aug. 21

...reporters at his Texas ranch that ousting Iraq's Saddam Hussein was "in the interests of the world" but indicated...5 storm. The postwar Iraqi tribunal trying former Saddam Hussein aides opened its third proceeding, putting former...

http://juneauempire.com/not-web/2012-08-21
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Are we deaf to the spirit of the American Revolution?

...training that helped the Shah repress his people. Not long after he was ousted from power we gave military aid to Saddam Hussein for Iraq to be our proxy in a war with Iran. And during the past decade we sent more than $3 billion to Pakistan...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-07-03/are-we-deaf-spirit-american-revolutio
Opinion
Outside editorial: Gadhafi's exit, Libya's victory

...against Gadhafi loyalists. That's crucial. A purge similar to the "de-Baathification" campaign that turned Saddam Hussein's onetime supporters into an army of enemies would invite chaos.For the United States and its NATO allies, the...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2011-08-29/outside-editorial-gadhafis-exit-libya
Opinion
Two keys to peace in Syria

...building.Past examples of external military intervention in the region are discouraging. While the Iraq War did topple Saddam Hussein, it came at a high cost of national disunity and deplorable waste of human and material resources. And the NATO...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-05-24/two-keys-peace-syria
Opinion
Living with a nuclear Iran

...program wouldn't be as "easy" as Israel's 1981 attack on Iraq's Osirak nuclear facility, which prevented Saddam Hussein from developing a nuclear warhead, they may underestimate the complexity of such an operation.Iran's nuclear...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-05-16/living-nuclear-iran
Opinion
The long view in Israel against the 1967 line

...antiaircraft missiles and tons of explosives for terrorist attacks. Today, it might be argued that after the demise of Saddam Hussein, Israel no longer has to worry about Iraqi expeditionary forces racing across Jordanian territory. Yet Israeli planning...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2011-06-07/long-view-israel-against-1967-line
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