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000 Shia slaughtered when the idiotic first Bush allowed Saddam to retain his Airforce after we had marched to Bagdad after flinging Saddam’s troops out of Kuwait. Or for that matter

…goal of regional territorial gains. Remember, ISIS’ military leadership largely is drawn from Sunnis who were a part of Saddam’s military; they are motivated by revenge for how they have been treated by the Shia-dominated post-Saddam Iraqi government.) Last week’s Metrojet bomb...

… the newly elected leader, “God told me to strike at Al-Qaeda and I struck them, and then He instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did. And now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me, I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will...

…essons drawn from the long history of conflict in the Middle East is this: Do not go to war without nuclear weapons, as Saddam Hussein did when he invaded Kuwait. The corollary is: Do not allow the United States to methodically build-up forces in the Gulf prior to invading, as Sa...

…goal of regional territorial gains. Remember, ISIS' military leadership largely is drawn from Sunnis who were a part of Saddam's military; they are motivated by revenge for how they have been treated by the Shia-dominated post- Saddam Iraqi government.) Last week's Metrojet bombi...

Economics. They made Saddam Hussein one of the 10 wealthiest people in the world. Besides, sanctions create sanctions-busting which, like drugs, is a global criminal industry born entirely of the idiocy of western diplomacy. A year ago the Foreign Office defended yet another rou...

Economics. They made Saddam Hussein one of the 10 wealthiest people in the world. Besides, sanctions create sanctions-busting which, like drugs, is a global criminal industry born entirely of the idiocy of western diplomacy. A year ago the Foreign Office defended yet another rou...

Rabin is quoted as having defined the elimination of Saddam as a

a major military response was highly unlikely. Saddam’s

when we’d launched our preemptive strike on Saddam Hussein’s

new air mobile division we’d planned to use against Saddam’s Scud launchers were likely to be a lot more important than tank formations in future conflicts. Six days into the job, I called together every officer in the army, from the rank of lieutenant-colonel up. I said we need...

…made Libya's Gaddafi so rich he could spoon money into the London School of HOUSE OVERSIGHT 018201 Economics. They made Saddam Hussein one of the 10 wealthiest people in the world. Besides, sanctions create sanctions-busting which, like drugs, is a global criminal industry born e...

…tressing the damage we’d risk doing to the Americans’ war effort by possibly weakening Arab support for their attack on Saddam. When Shamir turned to me, I said that if the government did decide on military action, we were ready. From a purely military and security point-of- view...

… combination of deftness and determination President Bush had brought to assembling his wartime coalition and defeating Saddam. After a formal opening session in Madrid, the “bilateral tracks” — between Israel and negotiators from Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and the Palestinians — had...

response, or an American one, on an incomparably greater scale. It would also totally isolate Saddam internationally and end any chance of peeling off Arab support for the Americans. It was my nearly 100-per-cent caveat that prompted a tense debate within the cabinet. Even if th...