Definitions
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- noun a follower of Saddam Hussein or an advocate of his
policies - adjective of, or relating to Saddam Hussein, his former
government orparty
Etymologies
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Examples
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In U.S. Senate hearings about graft in Iraq's oil-for-food program, they painted Galloway as a corrupt "Saddamist" who belonged not in parliament, but prison.
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"Since then we've gotten some of our rights, but we still have fears about the future as there are still Saddamist thoughts in some governmental institutions."
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Since 2001, in the mind of Hitchens, was like 1939, he skates over any distinction between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, and talks blithely about "the Saddamist-Al Qaeda alliance."
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Since 2001, in the mind of Hitchens, was like 1939, he skates over any distinction between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, and talks blithely about "the Saddamist-Al Qaeda alliance."
Christopher Hitchens'"Hitch 22": Left? Right? Center? The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Wallace is perhaps most famous, though, for a comment he gave when commanding a division during the invasion of Iraq that ran into unexpectedly tough resistance from a Saddamist guerilla force.
The Truth Of Revolution, Brother, Is Year Zero | ATTACKERMAN 2008
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Since 2001, in the mind of Hitchens, was like 1939, he skates over any distinction between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, and talks blithely about "the Saddamist-Al Qaeda alliance."
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Tehran is not a Saddamist dictatorship or a Taliban autocracy.
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While previously we were fighting "Sunni/Saddamist insurgents" and "al-Queda" the "surge" was - at least originally - said to be needed in order to fight the "Sadrist" militias and death squads of Moqtada al-Sadr.
Dave Johnson and James Boyce: Surge Protection For Our Men And Women In Uniform 2008
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While previously we were fighting "Sunni/Saddamist insurgents" and "al-Queda" the "surge" was - at least originally - said to be needed in order to fight the "Sadrist" militias and death squads of Moqtada al-Sadr.
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In reality (ah, "reality" -- what a nasty word!), the shock-and-awe attacks used on Iraq got not a single leader of the Saddamist regime, not one of that pack of 52 cards (including of course the ace of spades, Saddam Hussein, found in his "spiderhole" so many months later).
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