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While acknowledging Hussein's misdeeds--attacking Israel in 1967, hosting Palestinian terrorists over the years, and siding with Iraq in the Persian Gulf War--editorialists lavished excuses on him: He feared a Palestinian revolt if he didn't attack Israel in 1967, atoned for the 1967 war by sitting out the 1973 war against Israel, and allied himself with Iraq in 1991 because he feared an Iraqi invasion or collateral economic damage from the war against Iraq.
The soon to be ex-husband of a makeup woman for Oprah Winfrey also says he couldn't compete with the trips and gifts the generous talk show host lavished on his wife, according to the Globe . "Any time I tried to talk to her, she would cut me short and say she was being elevated to a higher level," the husband says.
He lavished millions on palaces and mosques, blowing at least one million pounds sterling on gold and jewels for his Peacock Throne.
Reading it, you get a better sense of Bush as a character than from the tens of thousands of words lavished upon him by Texas Monthly and the Washington Post .
Early reviews lavished praise on the New York Times "Foreign Affairs" columnist's study of globalization: "The author uses his skills as a reporter and analyst to conduct a breathtaking tour, one that possesses the exhilarating qualities of flight and the stomach-hollowing ones of free fall" (Richard Eder, the New York Times ). Recent reviews have been considerably cooler.