Word: saddamã
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...Under Reagan, the Carter malaise was reversed, and economic policies were put in place that Clinton and the Bushes left untouched with great success. Communism fell without a missile fired, and foreign policy was managed without disastrous invasions; when Bush Sr. invaded Kuwait, he resisted the temptation to follow Saddam??s forces back to Baghdad, with his Defense Secretary, Dick Cheney, predicting a “quagmire.” Gingrich pared down the unwieldy federal government and reformed the broken welfare system, and William Buckley called for an end to the senseless war on drugs...
Jafar’s father found out that his mother had passed away on New Year’s Day last year—the day after he and his wife had been celebrating Saddam??s execution on the streets of Dearborn, Michigan...
...Afterwards, he said, he would fall asleep in the courtyard of a looted house—once the residence of a member of Saddam??s secret police—that his father had commandeered as a central base...
...four, he said that he and his twin sister—along with more than 20 family members—were held as political prisoners by Saddam??s government...
...There weren’t even any reliable government statistics to look at, Foote said, because Saddam??s regime had provided few incentives to compile accurate economic data...