Word: aspine
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...weapons of mass destruction and seriously impair its conventional war machine. Reconciling those two aims requires a delicate balancing act. "You want an Iraq weak enough that it can't threaten the weakest of its neighbors, yet strong enough to deter the strongest of its neighbors," says Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee...
...Aspin (D-Wis.), chair of the Armed Services Committee, said "the losses have been so low they may have set an unachievable standard for the rest...
Bush got help from another Democrat early in the week when Representative Les Aspin of Wisconsin, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, painted a relatively rosy picture of a potential war. In a report he prepared based on public hearings and private conversations, Aspin estimated that in a war relying heavily on American air assaults, the U.S. stood a good chance of winning in less than a month. He figured casualties in such a conflict might be in the range of 3,000 to 5,000, with up to 1,000 dead...
...even more, cutting Iraqi supply and communications lines and leaving the occupation forces inside Kuwait unable to replenish their supplies of ammunition, food and, above all, water. Some U.S. aircraft would be lost to Iraq's enormous ground-defense system, but the toll might be relatively low. Congressman Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, estimates that no more than 10 U.S. planes a day would be shot down in the initial bombing campaign...
...that the U.S. was dead serious about taking him on. The tough-talking Baker was to deliver that news. But now the Secretary is to meet only with one of the "sycophants." "You're talking to the monkey, you're not talking to the organ-grinder himself," lamented Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. The encounter with Saddam might yet come off. Bush last week ruled out such a meeting. But should the Iraqis, after a smooth Baker-Aziz get-together, invite Baker to Baghdad, Washington would find it difficult to decline...