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  • So lost and out of touch are these Ba'thist dead enders that they fail to realize that a New Deal sounds like a pretty good idea to millions of struggling Americans.

    Long Shadows 2009

  • Iraq is in post-war reconstruction and fighting a war against forces that wish to destroy the new government and establish another Islamic dictatorship or Ba'thist government.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • The Ba'thist party is modeled after the NAZI system.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • So, was Mark Daily killed by the Ba'thist and bin Ladenist riffraff who place bombs where they will do the most harm?

    A Death in the Family Hitchens, Christopher 2007

  • True, but some people were more tortured than others, especially after the Iranian revolution, and the Sha`ban uprising, the presence of Shi`ites in Ba'thist ranks notwithstanding.

    Monday, July 31, 2006 As'ad 2006

  • But the systematic violation of it by the state as a means of political control is decidedly nontraditional: "an added new cruelty," as Makiya puts it, "which takes place on the grounds of an unwritten silent contract between traditional male-dominated Arab culture and 'modern' public life, whose most cruel epitome is the Ba'thist state of Iraq."

    Saying the Unsayable Mortimer, Edward 1993

  • Culture, History and Ideology in the Formation of Ba'thist Iraq, 1968–89 by Amatzia Baram

    In Saddam's Arms Partner, Peter 1991

  • By presupposing, for instance, that torture is immoral, later generations of Iraqis will certainly try to untie the Gordian knot of Ba'thist legitimacy.

    The Thief of Baghdad Mortimer, Edward 1990

  • "The test of war," Khalil writes, "points to a large degree of Ba'thist success in moulding the country's youth in their own image."

    The Thief of Baghdad Mortimer, Edward 1990

  • Overview: In 1990-93 Syria's state-dominated Ba'thist economy benefited from the Gulf war, increased oil production, good weather, and economic deregulation.

    The 1995 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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