Word: iraq
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...force. But no one outside Yugoslavia was -- or is -- prepared to go to war against him. Military intervention, most believe, would be likely to land outside powers in a Vietnam-style quagmire and cost them heavy casualties. There may be universal outrage at the human carnage, but unlike Iraq's grab for oil-rich Kuwait, Serbia's depredations against Croatia and Bosnia do not threaten the strategic interests of the U.S. or European neighbors enough to justify the risks of sending in troops...
Nothing inspires more confidence in Republican campaign strategists than the belief that George Bush is unbeatable on the foreign policy front. The President can point to the kind of experience that no mere Governor of Arkansas or Texas businessman can claim. Even the imperfect victory over Iraq, which failed to push Saddam out of power, is a Bush triumph in one crucial respect: it achieved the declared aim of ousting Saddam from Kuwait...
...lately congressional Democrats are trying to credit Bush with Saddam's rise as well as his retreat. No fewer than three House committees are looking into the charge that, first as Vice President under Ronald Reagan and then as President, Bush provided Iraq with substantial U.S. assistance that strengthened Saddam's hand as a regional menace. Even as it became clear that Baghdad was moving to dominate its neighbors, Bush, Secretary of State James Baker and other White House officials urged the Commerce and Defense departments to approve sales to Iraq of sensitive U.S. technology that found its way into...
North Carolina Representative Charlie Rose, who chairs a House agriculture subcommittee, is looking into why the Agriculture Department's program, designed to help foreign nations purchase American farm goods, approved most of the loan guarantees. "These loans not only permitted Iraq to feed its people," complains another House Democrat, Henry Gonzalez of Texas, "they freed up scarce foreign exchange that was used by Iraq to build up its military arsenal...
...Defense Department or the President can restrict or veto the sale. Last week, reflecting growing concern over the ^ deal, the review process was extended to late July. One particularly sensitive point being raised is Thomson-CSF's record of supplying arms to rogue governments, including Libya and Iraq. Already, 45 Senators and many Congressmen have petitioned President Bush to stop the sale. Argues Senator Jeff Bingaman, chairman of the U.S. Senate Armed Services technology subcommittee: "There isn't a country in the world that would permit the U.S. through a government-owned company to purchase its defense industry...