Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Persian Gulf, for example, was entirely appropriate. Those who call constantly for the ouster of Sadaam Hussein seem oblivious to the first rule of containment strategy: thou shalt not create any power vacuums. If we remove Hussein, who takes over? There is no question that an unduly weakened Iraq would summon Iranian intervention...
...Hussein's Republican Guard troops were really advancing. "We are here to send a signal, and that signal is 'We are ready,'" said Colonel Robert C. Pollard. With its buildup in Kuwait last week, the U.S. very visibly made its latest move in the now-take-that contest with Iraq that has rattled nerves throughout the Persian Gulf and left American allies wondering who is winning what...
...United States doesn't care a whit about the Kurds! The United States has been providing helicopter gunships to Turkey so Turkey can better attack Kurdish villages. A while back, Turkey was even allowed to invade the so-caled "safe haven" in northern Iraq in pursuit of Kurds...
Tell the truth! Five hundred thousand Iraqi children have died of starvation and disease in the U.S. embargo against Iraq...
...embargo and the military action against Iraq are designed to keep Iraq weak so that the oil reserves of the region can be dominated by the large American oil companies. --Gary Sudborough