The Iraqi people were not going to be tricked into support for the American invaders and their Iraqi accomplices. ... Most Iraqis wanted to see the back of Saddam Hussein, but they already viewed their liberators--the Americans and the Iraqi exile parties--with suspicion. ..…
Nowhere was this obstacle more frustrating for American rulers than with regard to Iraq, where the dictator Saddam Hussein had been a U.S. ally until he invaded the oilfields of neighboring Kuwait in July 1990. . ..…
BOSTON - This summer, Iraqi went to one of Islamic courts springing up in the city of Najaf to confess to the judge that he had killed his mother.. ..…
By requiring them to agree publicly that, WASHINGTON - Bush administration officials said yesterday that next week they would confront France, Germany and other skeptics of military action against Iraq Iraq had defied Security Council.. ..…
While White House was fixated on Saddam Hussein's interest in procuring biological and chemical weapons, evidence uncovered by American investigators suggests that Iraqi president spent his final years power more determined to develop and deploy conventional ballistic missiles,..…
Based on these paid informants, the CIA gave Bush the 'intelligence' he needed to prove that Saddam Hussein's regime was a threat. In his book Fiasco: The American Military Intervention in Iraq, journalist Thomas Ricks of the Washington Post argues that the CIA's National..…
“I don’t think the American public needs a lot of persuading about the evil that is Saddam Hussein,” he said. ... The first, but by no means the last, obvious manifestation of a new American foreign policy will be the effort to remove Saddam..…
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