Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...started the blaze. Once the fire has started, you don't say, Wait a minute, we shouldn't put it out because this fire shouldn't have been set in the first place. I would cast that vote all over again. I started making speeches against his Iraq policy back in 1988. I think it was an extremely serious mistake by Bush, and one for which he ought to be held accountable...
...Iraq...
THROWING OUT A PLEA BARGAIN IS AN UNUSUAL step in the U.S. court system. But just about everything in the continuing legal saga of Christopher Drogoul is unusual. Though Drogoul pleaded guilty in June to 60 of 347 counts that he made $4 billion in illegal loans to Iraq before Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, a prosecutor announced last week that the government was no longer willing to honor that agreement because the defendant lied throughout his three-week sentencing hearing...
...trial will also open a Pandora's box of allegations by the former Atlanta branch manager of the Italian Banca Nazionale del Lavoro and his attorney Bobby Lee Cook. They say that senior B.N.L. officials in Rome not only approved the loans to Iraq but that the U.S. and Italian governments were aware of the transactions. As proof, Drogoul and Cook introduced what they claim is an internal bank document written in Italian and slipped under Cook's hotel room door last week. The document is an executive summary of meetings between bank executives, Italian government officials and representatives...
...matter whom history finally blames for the Gulf War, Iraq's children have suffered most. A report in the New England Journal of Medicine, issued by doctors at eminent institutions including the Harvard School of Public Health, says that mortality tripled among children ages five and under as a consequence of the war itself and the trade sanctions that preceded and followed it. That comes to nearly 47,000 additional kids who died between January and August 1991 -- the result of decisions made mostly by adult...