Sentence examples for saddam from inspiring English sources

His biggest strategic miscalculation was not to use the leverage he had over George Bush as the only substantial western ally to join the 2003 invasion – the "coalition of the willing" – to extract a better plan for the occupation of Saddam Hussein's ill-governed state once the fighting was over (even sooner than expected).

He bolstered his position as opposition foreign affairs spokesman with fiery performances in parliament, pressing prime minister John Howard and foreign minister Alexander Downer on their alleged roles in kickback scandals in which Australia's monopoly wheat exporter was found to have paid bribes to Saddam Hussein under the UN oil-for-food programme.

But Mosul also has a hard Sunni core, partly fuelled by disgruntled former officers under Saddam who bore the brunt of de-Baathification policy after America toppled Saddam in 2003.

A surprisingly tense and nervous Mr Blair has stressed time and again that he believed Saddam should be removed "if there was any possibility" that he had WMD.

Mossad operatives were in northern Iraq training Kurdish fighters for the battles with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, until the Shah pulled the plug, ending support for the Kurdish rebellion with his 1975 Algiers agreement with Saddam.

It worked against Serbia, against the Taliban, and against Saddam, just as the absence of an army has not worked against Syria or Islamic State.

Abadi, a veteran of Iraq's post-Saddam Hussein governments, was appointed on Monday after the country's president effectively deposed Maliki in an effort to break the political deadlock that has paralysed the government while jihadists sweep through the north of the country.

They argue that, if IS has managed to create something resembling a state structure, it is in no small part due to the influx of former Saddam-era Baathists.

Her government's tacit support for Saddam Hussein's war against Iran led to successive Gulf wars and John Major's studied neutrality in Bosnia – which later pushed Tony Blair in the opposite direction, towards costly interventionism that overstretched MoD resources.

It was the rotting Ottoman remains that the British occupied (a big eye on the oil) and started modernising (that Blairish word) after the first world war, with largely unsuccessful results that culminated in Saddam Hussein, from a pro-Nazi clan in Tikrit, a city now occupied by Isis.

Through the 1990s, Saudi Arabia paid a high price for the decision to invite foreign troops to liberate Kuwait from Saddam Hussein's occupation.