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Article: The awful truth is America quite likes the Saddam regime; Christopher Hitchens on why US has failed to depose the dictator.(Features)
- Article from:
- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 21, 2002
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Byline: Christopher Hitchens
THE discovery by an American president that nuclear weapons can be useful is not as new as some shocked people appear to believe.
General MacArthur had eventually to be fired because he thought them too potentially useful in the Korean war.
Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy and Nixon were prepared to use them against Cuba or Vietnam or the Arab states.
Even the latest rather candid nuclear "doctrine" can be traced directly to an authorisation made by President Clinton in 1996.
The message is always the ...