State Rep. Mike Moffett (R-Loudon) is a former Marine Corps infantry officer who chairs the House Committee on State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs. He is currently in Taiwan with a New ...

There are lessons from the Holocaust that should never be forgotten. The major one is that variations of the Holocaust can and will happen again to us or someone else if absolute power in the wrong ...

Saddam Hussein richly deserved death by hanging. The world is better off without him. However, I am disappointed that he was executed before he could be tried for his other crimes, some even more ...

President Saddam Hussein of Iraq, besieged by tenacious domestic rebellions that continued to threaten his control of key cities, Saturday promised broad political reforms that he said would transform ...

The 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq was based on the allegation that the country’s dictator, Saddam Hussein, had weapons of mass destruction. In his new book, author Steve Coll pored over hundreds of audio ...

In the pantheon of bloodthirsty dictators, Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein has almost been relegated to the dustbin of history. He’s remembered as part of the now-quaint-seeming “axis of evil,” for ...

ATLANTA (AP) -- Former U.N. chief weapons inspector Scott Ritter said Tuesday he believes Saddam Hussein agreed to let weapons inspectors into Iraq because the only other option was the country's ...

Imagine if President George W. Bush had decided not to go to war in Iraq: Would Iraqis be experiencing their own Arab Spring with protesters thronging around Saddam's opulent palaces? Is there any ...

(Reuters) - A verdict is expected on Sunday in the trial of Saddam Hussein for crimes against humanity in the killings of Shi'ite villagers after a 1982 assassination attempt. If found guilty, Saddam ...

(Reuters) - Saddam Hussein was hanged on Saturday for crimes against humanity. The following are details of the Dujail case for which he was hanged, a second trial in which he was charged with ...