Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will all be butchered." One horror story was being passed from mouth to mouth: of Kurdish infants strapped to the flanks of attacking Iraqi tanks. Whether such tales are true or exaggerated, the Kurds have good reason to fear reprisals from a government that has systematically set out to destroy their culture and homeland...
...have seen the new world order and it sucks. Maybe the war was necessary. Maybe we did need to destroy much of Iraq's military and free Kuwait by force. But given President Bush's hideous betrayal of the Iraqi Kurds and Shiites, only the willfully ignorant can trust anything this man says about the Middle East...
...even revived the Northrop Corp.'s hopes for its flawed and perhaps missionless B-2 bomber. The California company has launched a furious campaign to get more money for an aircraft that carries an $865 million price tag. The company and the Pentagon claim that the B-2 can destroy Soviet mobile missiles dispersed in millions of square miles of thick forests. Never mind that Saddam Hussein launched Scud missiles for weeks from sites in the open desert while a huge force of allied warplanes tried to find them. When it comes to buying weapons, it seems, cost...
...these levels of chlorine monoxide--the highest ever measured at midlatitudes--persist for a month, they could destroy as much as two percent of the ozone in a given region, according to Toohey...
Absolutely, say American officers. The aim of the U.S.-led coalition at that point was not just to push Saddam Hussein's army out of Kuwait but also to destroy the offensive capability that had made it a regional menace. A great deal of that offensive capability consisted of vehicles on the road to Basra. The Iraqis driving them in many cases were members of Saddam's Republican Guard who at least initially were conducting an orderly fighting retreat. The allies were determined to give them no breathing space to pull themselves together to make a stand -- or to regroup...