Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cruise missiles at an Iraqi industrial park near Baghdad that Washington said housed a nuclear facility. Then came more bombs on Monday and Tuesday, dropped on missile batteries and air defenses in or near the northern no-fly zone that protects Kurds against Saddam Hussein's warplanes. On Tuesday Iraq declared a "cease-fire" as a gesture of "good intentions" toward incoming U.S. President Bill Clinton. It claimed to be sticking to it even after U.S. jets, fired on while flying through the northern exclusion zone both Thursday and Friday, attacked radar sites and missile emplacements with HARM missiles...
...IRAQ: Saddam Gets Spanked...
...execution until Wednesday night, when 80 U.S. Navy and Air Force planes took off from the carrier Kitty Hawk and four air bases in Saudi Arabia. With 30 French and British warplanes joining in, they struck four SAM missile and four radar emplacements in the no-fly zone. Iraq responded with only light antiaircraft fire, and all the allied planes returned safely...
...installations. Destruction wasn't the point, Washington insisted, because the intended message was political. Said Bush: "I would think that Saddam Hussein would understand that we mean what we say, and that we back it up." Bill Clinton told a news conference in Little Rock that his policy toward Iraq is the same as Bush...
...Kemp < nodded to Reagan's cadences, took notes as if he were preparing his 1996 plans to chase Clinton out of the Oval Office. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, another incipient contender, hovered on an end seat with a satchel of papers. (They were, it turned out, plans for the Iraq strike.) So even in this rite of passage was the hope of renewal...