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Let George Do It.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(EDITORIALS)(Editorial)
Media: When a conservative television evangelist calls for the assassination of a foreign leader, the feeding frenzy is enormous. When an adviser to a Democratic president does the same, he gets a cushy network anchor job.
Funny, but we don't recall the same outrage eight years ago that greeted Pat Robertson's recent call to "take out" Venezuelan thug Hugo Chavez. Back in 1997, George Stephanopoulos, fresh from his influential post in the Clinton White House, called for the assassination of Saddam Hussein in a Newsweek article subtly titled "Why We Should Kill Saddam."
No self-righteous editorials condemning Stephanopoulos as a loose cannon. No endless talking-head discussions on how his words upset our diplomatic efforts in the Middle East. No reprimands on how a dictator was given proof that the U.S. was out to get him.
Instead, Stephanopoulos has been rewarded with media prominence and gets to expound his moderate views on ABC's "This Week."
Unlike private citizen Robertson, Stephanopoulos advanced his idea when he still had the ear of the U.S. president, after we had just fought a war with Iraq. "Assassination may be Clinton's best option," Stephanopoulos wrote. "If we can kill Saddam, we should."
In 1997, U.N. sanctions were in place, and it would be another year before Saddam kicked out U.N. weapons inspectors. Many said then, as now, that Saddam Hussein was "contained" and that there was no need for further hostile action on our part. Yet here was a presidential confidant and adviser arguing that Saddam ...
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- Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database March 27, 2003 700+ words
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...According to the London Sunday Times, Israel's elite Sayeret Matkal commando unit was planning to assassinate Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein last month. The fatal blow was to come from a missile attack but it was canceled the last minute after it was decided that...
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- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Budiansky, Stephen February 18, 1991 700+ words
...the man who started it. "If you'd kill Saddam," an Iraqi defector said last week...this would stop." As the list of Saddam Hussein's outrages grows-the mistreatment...the Arab-Israeli conflict: "If Saddam Hussein is in power at the end of the war...
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- Magazine article from: National Review Buckley, William F., Jr. November 8, 2004 700+ words
...curious that as long ago as March 2003, we tried to kill Saddam Hussein. We had it all worked out that he was in hiding...were actionable. In any event, our anxiety then to kill Saddam Hussein is in sharp contrast to our desire now to keep him...
- Israel Had Plans to Kill Saddam.
- Newspaper article from: Israel Faxx December 17, 2003 700+ words
...short an exercise designed to kill Saddam Hussein in retaliation for 40 Iraqi...playing the part of the targets, Saddam Hussein and his bodyguards, and the...brief visit to Palestine. Saddam Hussein was born in 1937. After the...
- Hunting Saddam: Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has survived covert efforts to...
- Magazine article from: The Middle East Blanche, Ed January 1, 2003 700+ words
...been specially made to target Saddam Hussein and had arrived at Taif air base...the decision has been made to kill Saddam if the opportunity presents itself...candle every night and hoped that Saddam Hussein would be killed in a bunker...
