Word: iraq
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...UNITED NATIONS IS ABOUT TO SUPERVISE THE DEstruction of Iraq's stockpile of nerve gas at an incinerator only 60 miles from Baghdad. It is a symbolic moment: Saddam Hussein may still be President of the Republic of Iraq, but like his arsenal of dangerous toys, his claim to being the absolute ruler of a sovereign country is going up in smoke...
...danger is clearest in northern Iraq. The population there is made up mostly of Kurds, members of a non-Arab minority that the Iraqis have persecuted for decades. During the Gulf War, the Kurds eagerly responded to George Bush's call for a popular uprising. They saw a chance to break free of Baghdad once...
...that was emphatically not what Bush had in mind. He has identified "instability" as the greatest threat to world peace in the post-cold war era. He sees the global contagion of secessionism as profoundly destabilizing. In three cases that came to a head last year -- Iraq, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union -- Bush instinctively sided with the central governments, no matter how unpopular and repressive, against separatists...
...only place the United States is currently leading a small-scale military operation is in Iraq, where the U.S., Britain and France have established a "no-fly zone" to protect Shiite rebels in the south...
...more than two months before the election, that Bush's acutely timed sense of outrage appeared. And anyway, the belated operation will make little real difference for the Shiites. Much of the Iraqi persecution is being carried out by ground troops, and still there are no plans to stop Iraq's army...