Word: iraq
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...message greeting United Nations inspectors on their return to Iraq last week was ungrammatical but clear. Slathered in yellow paint on a wall at the Habaniya air base were the words DOWN AMERICA. The 75 inspectors--four of them Americans--may have come back, but they were still not welcome. And there was no guarantee that they would now have an easier time carrying out their mission: to search for and destroy Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. Bill Clinton seemed skeptical of the hasty, Russian-led diplomatic initiative that had persuaded Baghdad to back down: he continued...
...Iraq Stacks the Deck...
...current situation in Iraq brings to mind a certain truism regarding needles and haystacks. The problem for the last week or so has been that Saddam won?t allow inspectors searching for some particularly deadly needles into his palatial haystacks ? said to be the size of Washington, D.C. But so what? As TIME?s Pentagon correspondent Dick Thompson pointed out Wednesday, you can manufacture nerve gas in a 10?x10? room. How many 10?x10? rooms can there be in Iraq? That?s an awful lot of haystacks to grope around in. Perhaps those weapons inspectors ought to quit while...
...Suffer Little Children Sanctions on Iraq have left more than a million children malnourished, according to UNICEF.What can be done...
Suffer Little Children Sanctions on Iraq have left more than a million children malnourished, according to UNICEF.What can be done? Full Story...