Iraq's nostalgia for Saddam
"Biden, while addressing US troops at Saddam’s old home, remarked that he found it “delicious” that “we are in the middle of this marble palace, making a lie of everything that he [Saddam] stood for.” But the current showdown between Maliki and Allawi in fact belies Biden’s glowing assessment: Iraqi leaders appear nostalgic for the kind of endless and unchallenged power that Saddam was able to wield."
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