Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When there's a disaster, you deal with it," hesaid. "Can you imagine if the president had saidto the American public last year, 'We've decidedit's important to send our young men and women tofight in Iraq, but we can't find the money forit...
...Soviet Union -- are more or less friends. East and West Germany are one. Even North and South Korea have signed a treaty of reconciliation. Yes, much of the world remains as fractious as ever: the Khmer Rouge has followed Prince Sihanouk back to the haunted palaces of Cambodia, and Iraq occupies the place on the blacklist formerly reserved for its % archenemy Iran. But in a world where even South Africa is again part of the Olympic family, it may seem that the Olympic Games of 1992 are the first Games for a while that many are not regarding...
...gulf war ended a year ago. If America wanted Saddam Hussein toppled by Kurds and Shi'ites, this should have been done by now. There is already an uprising in northern Iraq, and the people of Kurdish origin, of Turkish origin, of Iraqi origin, are miserable. There is no government control. There are tribes, mostly Kurdish, controlling the region. How can these poor people topple Saddam? Furthermore, I don't think anyone wants the Shi'ites to topple Saddam. That would mean an Iranian-style regime. I don't think Iraq's neighbors would be very happy about that...
...Saddam were toppled by an American- supported Kurdish-Shi'ite rebellion. Far from clasping hands in a new regime, the guerrillas would be more likely to wage a bloody civil war for supremacy -- and not only against each other. They might join in slaughtering the Sunni Muslims in central Iraq from whom Saddam has drawn the elite of his regime. "It would make Kuwaiti brutality against the Palestinians ((who supported Iraqi occupation or were suspected of doing so)) seem mild," says a senior British diplomat...
Fear has always been part of life in Iraq, but never more than now. Secret police and government informers have infected neighborhoods, factories and schools. Some parents are afraid of their own children, fearful that if their young ones hear them express their true political beliefs at home, they might unwittingly betray them. Those adults who oppose Saddam Hussein's regime have to conceal it: when the Iraqi leader appears on television, parents remind their youngsters to call him "Uncle Saddam...