They pointed out that this dam was actually built in the 1980s under Saddam Hussein.
Later excavations and conservation work carried out under Saddam's rule greatly despoiled the site, say archaeologists.
Under Saddam Hussein, the minority Sunni Muslims wielded power, often through violence against Shiites and Kurds.
Sunnis, who had more clout under Saddam Hussein's rule, are embracing the new governmental system.
The Sunni Arabs from whose numbers most of the insurgents are drawn enjoyed privileged treatment under Saddam Hussein.
Under Saddam Hussein, there was no freedom in what you could say in the theatre.
The religious sect dominated Baghdad's political system and armed forces under Saddam Hussein.
But the affair has the feel of Shia retribution for their sufferings under Saddam and his Sunni-dominated security services.
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But it is a less terrible one than Iraq was under Saddam Hussein.
One is that more Iraqis now seem to have cars than under Saddam.
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Sunni Arabs had more political clout in Iraq under Saddam Hussein until his ouster in 2003 after a U.S.-led invasion.
It housed mainly Sunni civil servants and security officials under Saddam Hussein's regime, though many Shiites now live there too.
These people, coalition officials said, are behind much of the brutality and corruption that has kept residents under Saddam's control.
The Sunni gunmen of Fallujah are struggling to regain the political supremacy they enjoyed under Saddam Hussein, with all its perks.
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Under Saddam Hussein, many Kurds were forced out of Kirkuk, and Arabs were often brought in from the south of the country.
"Fair trials were unimaginable under Saddam Hussein's tyrannical rule, " Bush's statement read.
To hear Hydar tell it, for those without Baath Party ties, life is a nightmare under Saddam's ruling henchmen in southern Iraq.
And he told me it's the same struggle as under Saddam's regime.
It is Iraq's biggest challenge in many years, said Zebari, pointing to the era under Saddam Hussein when Iraq was sanctioned and boycotted.
It contains former regime loyalists who held positions of power under Saddam Hussein people who still harbor dreams of returning to power.
"It's no better than under Saddam, " says Muhammad's 26-year-old sister, Fatimeh, who complains, like countless Iraqis, about the persistent insecurity in post-Saddam Iraq.
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Thus it brings me to ask - which is worse for the Iraqis, a life under Saddam Hussein or life blighted by war?
Equally peculiar is the Levin charge that "the intelligence community was consistently dubious" about a connection between Iraq under Saddam and al Qaeda.
The Sunnis were privileged under Saddam, and the ascendancy of the Shia majority since his fall is one cause of frustration among them.
Having suffered mightily under Saddam Hussein, the Kurds are reluctant to give up the guarantee of security that their militias seem to offer.
Last year, he ordered a mentally ill woman released from jail after she was charged with helping an Iraqi spy agency under Saddam Hussein.
Sunni Arabs, some of whom were members of the former regime under Saddam Hussein, see their struggle as a resistance to a foreign occupation.
Sunni Arabs, more powerful under Saddam Hussein's rule, largely shunned the provincial elections four years ago when Shiites and Kurds rose in power.
Between October, 2005, and September, 2006, the United States admitted two hundred and two Iraqis as refugees, most of them from the years under Saddam.
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