Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...utter anarchy, does not: Slobodan Milosevic's Serbia has aided aggression against Bosnia's Muslims and Croats every step of the way in the interest of carving out a Greater Serbia. The Yugoslav breakup has spawned atrocities on all sides, but over the long haul this war, like Iraq's swallowing of Kuwait, is the fault of one big bully...
...Iraq's government, more defiant than ever last week, vowed to bar U.N. inspectors from all its ministries. Asked if his patience with Saddam Hussein is wearing thin, Bush said, "I've been fed up with him for a long time." From the warring states of the former Yugoslavia, images of inhuman conditions in detention camps flashed to television screens around the world, provoking disgust and anger...
...reluctance to act decisively even in the face of Iraq's blatant aggression should have warned the world of its incompetence in handling the current Balkan crisis...
Baghdad's compromise left the U.S. without a clear policy for getting Saddam to observe the cease-fire that he has been violating for months in ways large and small. Among the largest has been his mounting assault on Shi'ite rebels in southern Iraq. As one countermove, Secretary of State James Baker met in Washington with leaders of the Iraqi opposition. At the U.N., Britain, France and the U.S. are drawing up a new resolution to authorize force if the Shi'ite crackdown is not stopped...
...Friday the Pentagon announced that the U.S. will send 2,400 Army troops to Kuwait over the next three weeks for training exercises. Saddam may think that the President's political weakness at home will make it more difficult for him to muster support for renewed action against Iraq -- and at the same time more damaging for him to give the impression of being powerless in the face of Iraqi provocations. Bush may have been thinking along & the same lines last week when he insisted that Saddam will be made to comply with all terms of the cease-fire. Said...