Word: buildups
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Wartime investing isn't what it used to be. The Iraq war won't require any massive buildup of materiel that would stoke heavy industry and the profits of defense contractors. America's military might helped the conventional fighting go quickly in the war's early days. But the generals on Wall Street, expecting as much, have been shooting down defense stocks for months. Yet stocks overall tend to do well after the U.S. engages in hostilities, and this time should be no exception. The Dow ran up 8.4% last week--its best weekly gain in 20 years--and moved...
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld starts troop buildup in Middle East. Iraq issues declaration denying possesion of weapons of mass destruction. U.S. and U.K. reject the declaration, claiming Iraq is in “material breach” of U.N. resolutions. U.S. sets Jan. 27 as the decision day for war against Iraq. Inspections team finds “zilch” evidence of weapons of mass destruction. Iraqi exiles at a fractious meeting in London agree on power-sharing plan for post-Saddam Iraq...
...administered post-Saddam Iraq. The two-track policy of using the UN process as a means to build diplomatic support for a war already in the making may have helped build domestic backing for an invasion - and chief weapons inspector Hans Blix has affirmed that the military buildup has been the key factor promoting Iraqi cooperation - but the sense of inevitability about the war may have backfired on the international stage...
...when Blix says Iraq is cooperating only to the extent that it feels compelled by the military buildup, the U.S. claims vindication of its view that Saddam has no real intention of disarming, and must therefore be forcibly removed. But the antiwar coalition at the Security Council sees the same report as evidence of the effectiveness of containment - that Saddam's behavior is being conditioned by the threat of force. Extending inspections and even setting new specific demands on Iraq, in this view, offers a chance of peacefully disarming Iraq, and functions as a deterrent on prohibited weapons programs...
...BUILDUP OF U.S. FORCES ACTUALLY HAS HELPED...