Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were being disingenuous in their categorical dismissal of the Times report, since there was a secret scheme to attack Saddam if the U.N. team's mission had ended in failure. A few days later, the allies announced plans to carve out a security zone in southern Iraq, home of a persistent Shi'ite insurgency, that would be off limits to Saddam's combat aircraft. "We are not doing this for no good reason," British Prime Minister John Major explained. "It's happening because there is clear evidence now of the systematic murder, genocide, of the Shi'ites...
...Bush and everyone else keep saying, Iraq and Yugoslavia are challenges to the post-cold war order. That realization in itself should exclude, or at least mute, references to Vietnam in the debate over how to meet those challenges...
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...Though Iraq remains high on the August agenda, Yugoslavia, with its millions of innocent victims displayed daily in the media, has become Issue No. 1. Rarely is a nation presented with a clear, unequivocal moral issue to decide. Washington faces one now: to act or not to act to end Serbian aggression and the human agony it is inflicting. This question is uncluttered by direct American national interests, because the U.S. has none in Yugoslavia. If Bush decides to risk American lives in any form of military action there, it will be only because the U.S. accepts a moral obligation...