Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Moreover, the Republicans appear to believe in differential treatment for the parties. When President Bush wants to send 500,000 troops to Iraq overnight, he just waves his magic wand. But if President Clinton wants to send one twentieth of that number to Haiti, the Republicans want to vote first! You'd think they forgot about passing the War Powers Act for their old buddy Richard Nixon and his little policing actions...
...have never seen that story -- that's something that I have to be very clear and explicit about. I think it is clear and explicit now in a way that it may not have been six months ago. And I would hope that what happened in Haiti and Iraq would make it clear for all other countries in the future for as long as I'm sitting here...
...diplomatic equivalent of a bar fight threatened to break out last week in the United Nations Security Council, Bill Clinton's most outspoken foreign-policy official unblinkingly held her own. The ruckus was touched off by Saddam Hussein's chief emissary, Tariq Aziz, who accused the U.S. of ignoring Iraq's good behavior and maliciously refusing to lift an economic embargo against Baghdad. Since less than a fortnight earlier Baghdad had menaced Kuwait with more than 80,000 troops, Aziz's remark was disingenuous, if not absurd. The task of pointing this out fell to Madeleine Albright, the American ambassador...
...daughter of a Czech diplomat who thundered against totalitarianism, Albright is most effective when taking the offensive. Three weeks ago, she referred to another speech by Aziz as "one of the most ridiculous delivered at the U.N. by Iraq." And in July, she reduced the U.S. message to Haiti's illegal military government to these words: "You can depart voluntarily and soon, or you can depart involuntarily and soon." But behind each appearance of a freewheeling attack lies careful prep work. She assiduously maintains her Washington power base, shuttling from New York City as many as five times a week...
...IRAQ: Putting Saddam Back in His Cage...