...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
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