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What a difference a day makes. On Tuesday President Biden was speaking at the Holocaust Memorial Museum commemoration at the Capitol in Washington. There he drew a direct comparison between the events of the Holocaust and the attacks on Israel of October 7th. That is not my comparison. It was President Biden’s. Talking about the phrase “Never Again” he said: “Here we are not 75 years later but just seven and a half months later, and people are already forgetting. They’re already forgetting that Hamas unleashed this terror. It was Hamas who brutalized Israelis. It was Hamas who took and...

Updated: 3:19 p.m. ET Dec. 21, 2005 BAGHDAD, Iraq - Saddam Hussein told his trial on Wednesday he was beaten in U.S. custody and, in an extraordinary outburst towards the end of the hearing, also said those who had tortured Iraqis should be punished for their crimes. The former Iraqi president spent most of the session sitting quietly in the defendants’ dock as prosecution witnesses told the court of the beatings and abuse they and other former detainees say they suffered in Saddam’s jails. But late in the hearing, the man who ruled Iraq for a quarter of a century...