Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...units that drew upon a secret Swiss bank account stoked by skimming 5% off Iraq's burgeoning oil revenues. Through the '70s Iraq purchased weapons from the Soviets, who were eager to extend their influence in the Middle East. Saddam's interest was to counter a U.S.-engineered arms buildup in Iran. Western sympathies shifted against Tehran after the 1979 Islamic revolution, which ousted the Shah and brought the Ayatullah Khomeini to power. After Iraq invaded Iran in 1980, France proved to be a willing supplier. China and 25 other countries also fueled the eight-year conflict by selling weapons...
...does. After directing -- on perilously short notice -- the biggest buildup of U.S. forces since Vietnam, Schwarzkopf is orchestrating a complex war machine comprising forces from 28 allied nations totaling 675,000 troops, hundreds of ships, and thousands of airplanes and tanks, all fully equipped and operating, says the Pentagon, right on schedule...
...that had been expected to produce 620 of the high-tech stealth aircraft at a cost of $57 billion, he implicitly emphasized another military reality of the 1990s: the U.S. simply cannot afford many of the multibillion-dollar weapons systems that were started during Reagan's $2 trillion defense buildup and now continue to escalate in price...
...fight is for jobs. This argument only lasted a day or two. The war buildup has been further devastating an already weak U.S. economy, plunging us into a recession...
...military action without congressional approval. Bush's staff members like to point out that in the country's 200-year history, Presidents have sent American soldiers abroad 211 times, though Congress has declared war on only six occasions.* But those expeditions rarely involved massive troop deployments or a prolonged buildup to war. The gulf, in contrast, is a textbook case of when Congress should be a part of the decision: speed is not essential, and the stakes are high -- very high...