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"We haven't found anything, no weapons of mass destruction, no Saddam, no nothing.
[Iraqi Prime Minister] al-Maliki is no Saddam of course, but the plight of the post-war Iraqi people will not be soothed by a stadium".
We were surrounded almost immediately by a dozen or so men, one of whom said to us that, Saddam or no Saddam, they would fight the Americans.
Chanting, "No Americans, no Saddam, all the people are for Islam," the crowd blocked one street, but it carefully avoided a confrontation with dozens of soldiers guarding the entrance to the palace complex.
What this meant was reasonably clear: the return of power into Iraqi hands as soon as made sense; no Saddam or Saddam clones in government; no irresolvable inter-communal tensions; established individual and minority rights; minimum corruption and incompetence; and restored services.
WMD or no, Saddam was who they thought he was, and one only needs to look at the viciousness of his former generals who are now leading the ISIS campaign of terror if one doubts what Saddam's regime was capable of.
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As he drove through several small towns, crowds had lined the streets near Kut, shouting "No more Saddam!" and "Kiss America!" Many marines there were cautious of such crowds, but the enthusiasm of the children along the curb was contagious, Corporal Thompson said, and he spent much of the drive waving like a celebrity on a parade float.
But the C.I.A. can find no evidence of this, and the 21-page fact sheet the U.S. released with the president's speech mentions no Saddam-9/11 link at all.
No longer worried about the return of Saddam Hussein, the Shiites -- led by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani -- are focusing on the second part of their much-shouted slogan, "No, no to Saddam; no, no to America".
Basra is no longer under Saddam's control and the US says it has secured a peace agreement with the Shia clerics of Najaf.
The Iranians, who no longer had Saddam containing them, and who now have an ally in Baghdad.
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