Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gulf Tour '98 The U.S. and Iraq play the envoy game in the battle for hearts and minds. Special: Back to the Brink...
BAGHDAD: After William Cohen's Gulf tour played to indifferent audiences, Saddam is putting his own band of envoys on the road. His deputy prime minister is in Morocco, his justice minister has reached Yemen, and his foreign minister is hitting Syria -- where President Assad is urging against any U.S. use of force. Not that he's likely to give Saddam rave reviews, either -- Assad is a longtime foe of Iraq...
...also the scientists that create them, but we don't know where to find them," he says. "That's why inspections are better than attacks." And if bombing prompts Iraq to end to the weapons inspection program, the allies would be left with the unpalatable prospect of fighting the Gulf War all over again...
...Still, Thompson sees the Bosnia example as grounds for optimism: "Smart weapons used during air strikes in 1995 forced the Bosnian Serbs to the negotiating table within three weeks. The Pentagon will use that success, rather than Gulf War I, as the template for this operation...
...Round Of Gulf Defense Secretary Cohen heads to Saudi Arabia and President Clinton works the phones, desperate to get allies on board for a possible attack on Iraq. What happened to the spirit of 1991? Full Story Special: Back to the Brink...