Word: gulf
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...confrontation with the U.S., ready to live and cheat again. For that he can thank Kofi Annan. Three times the U.N. Secretary-General insinuated himself into the showdown. By the time he was done, he had saved Saddam from the most serious attack on his regime since the Gulf...
Zinni is not the first four-star to be reluctant about taking down Saddam. The CIA believes that trying to kill the Baghdad bully from afar with missiles is nearly impossible. (The Pentagon tried, and missed, with 40 air attacks during the Gulf...
...more ambitious scheme--such as sending the U.S. Army on a search-and-destroy-Saddam mission--is politically and militarily foolish. Gulf War Army veteran John Hillen, a military strategist with the Council on Foreign Relations, believes such a campaign would be feasible only if Saddam did something really stupid, such as another lunge into Kuwait or a spectacular act of terrorism against U.S. citizens...
...Saddam operation would require help, especially the right to set up military bases, from Iraq's neighbors, including Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. Like Gulf War I, Gulf War II would begin with a strategic air campaign that would target all the tools that help Saddam keep his grip on power--and Saddam as well. If he survived the aerial onslaught, the land campaign would try to pin him and his loyalists down in greater Baghdad. As the U.S. Army tightened its noose around Saddam, he'd be tempted to unleash whatever nuclear, chemical and biological weapons he has squirreled...
After the Gulf War, Iraqi rebels grouped themselves into a coalition called the I.N.C., believing that the U.S. would back them. CIA money started flowing in and later, in a private letter from Vice President Al Gore, the Administration assured I.N.C. president Ahmed Chalabi of its commitment, promising "whatever additional support we can reasonably provide...