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Irna27 Mar 2014
Under the pretext that former Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, possessed weapons of mass destruction, the US and its allies invaded Iraq in March 2003. In October 2004, however, a CIA report revealed that Saddam Hussein did not possess any weapons of mass destruction at the time of the invasion ... “We did not claim or annex Iraqs territory ... 1210**1420 ....(size: 1.8Kb)
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Real Clear Politics27 Mar 2014
If the younger Bush had not intervened in Iraq in 2003, it is easily within the realm of possibility that the Arab Spring would have led to massive, blood-chilling sectarian and ethnic violence inside Iraq in response to a popular uprising against Saddam Hussein and the subsequent weakening of his tyranny. For Saddam's Iraq was, if anything, under even greater intercommunal stresses than al Assad's Syria....(size: 6.5Kb)
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The Daily Beast27 Mar 2014
The closest man to Britain's former prime minister, who was accused of lying to lead his country into the war in Iraq, says he was so depressed he plotted a way to kill himself ... His role as Blair’s master of spin came under intense scrutiny during the war in Iraq, when he was accused of helping to hype up intelligence reports about Saddam Hussein’s access to WMD, a claim he denies ... He timed it to perfection ... But it was too late ... He said....(size: 5.8Kb)
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The Wichita Eagle27 Mar 2014
Defeat can lead to defeatism, or it can lead to constructive rethinking. Which path will President Obama take after setbacks overseas?. By defeat, I do not mean, as some Obama critics would have it, that the U.S ... Obama was right to test the theory ... He believed that diplomacy could solve problems that George W ... foreign policy ... Now Putin has engineered the baldest violation of state sovereignty since Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990 ... ....(size: 5.4Kb)
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The Los Angeles Times27 Mar 2014
A few years ago, I found myself sitting on an airplane next to a gentleman from Egypt. Talk quickly turned to the upheaval in his country, where the so-called Arab Spring was in full bloom. "We want a real democracy," he told me, "not like yours." When I pressed him to elaborate, he shot back with a question of his own ... But it also appeared to be aimed at exacting revenge on Saddam Hussein, who had plotted to assassinate the elder Bush ... ....(size: 8.1Kb)
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The New York Times27 Mar 2014
Errol Morris on photography. This is the second installment of a four-part series. 2. THE KNOWN AND THE UNKNOWN ... There is an unknown known, and there is a known unknown ... ——– ... It was his trump card ... Naysayer — second-guessing the C.I.A., predicting Soviet nuclear dominance, attacking détente, proposing antiballistic missile shields, conjuring images of a Saddam armed with nuclear weapons and an assortment of biological and chemical W.M.D ... W ... ....(size: 22.2Kb)
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Irna26 Mar 2014
... in operations in Darkhovein region in south of the river Karoun during the war imposed on Iran by the toppled Saddam regime in Iraq....(size: 0.7Kb)
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Irna26 Mar 2014
... in a memorial site erected in commemoration of the martyrs who sacrificed their lives in operations in Darkhovein region in south of the river Karoun during the war imposed on Iran by the toppled Saddam regime in Iraq....(size: 1.1Kb)