Word: iraq
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THUS HAS THE TREMENDOUS POlitical momentum bestowed on George Bush by Desert Storm dissipated like so many grains of sand. Few Bush opponents would have anticipated that he might be vulnerable on his handling of Iraq in the aftermath of Desert Storm, when 91% of the U.S. public applauded his leadership. But now the issue appeals to Clinton and Perot as they look for ways to undermine the one area where Bush's reputation remained strong. In the final debate, Perot lobbed a bombshell -- with no supporting evidence -- claiming Bush had given Saddam a secret green light to seize...
...based bank loaned Iraq $4 billion -- but on whose orders...
After the Iran-Iraq war ended in 1988, President-elect Bush was faced, according to a State Department study, with deciding whether "to treat Iraq as a distasteful dictatorship to be shunned where possible, or to recognize Iraq's present and potential power in the region and accord it relatively high priority . . . ((with)) steady relations concentrating on trade." Bush eventually, and not without justification, chose the latter course. On Oct. 2, 1989, he signed National Security Directive 26, setting out the ways in which closer ties with Iraq were to be achieved, including "nonlethal forms of military assistance...
That sort of culture clash -- mountain man meets high society -- would have happened had Iceman ventured to meet his contemporaries on other continents. While the Alpine mountaineer and his people were foraging for berries and perhaps herding sheep or cattle, the Sumerians in what is now Iraq were already living in cities, drinking beer, keeping time with a primitive clock and transporting goods with their new invention: the wheel. Furthermore, they could record these deeds in the world's first written language. Along the Lower Nile, Egyptians were beginning to construct monumental buildings and decorate stone palettes and other objects...
...Mesopotamia the fertile land between the Tigris and Euphrates, the Chalcolithic people were building the first large city-states -- Uruk, Ur and Eridu Larsa -- in what is now southern Iraq. All grew to be thriving and fiercely competitive commercial centers. City life was centered around a ziggurat, or temple, that served as both a place of worship and a storehouse for surplus food. For the first time people were divided into several distinct social classes according to status and occupation...