Word: iraq
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That consensus has imploded with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Now that the Red Menace is gone, so-called paleoconservatives like Buchanan see no justification for vigorous American involvement abroad. Like many liberals -- and most of the Democratic presidential candidates -- Buchanan initially opposed Bush's aggressive response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. He contended that U.S. security interests defined only in the most narrow sense warranted going to war. Meanwhile some Democrats are arguing that all could be made well at home if the U.S. would only adopt a more protectionist trade policy, shielding American firms from foreign...
From the early days of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the Society was quick to condemn the Allied military buildup in Saudi Arabia with nothing but a glib, listless condemnation of Iraq itself...
UNITED NATIONS--U.N. officials yesterday reported the easing of a financial crunch that threatened to dissolve the U.N. force protecting Kurds in northern Iraq from attacks by Saddam Hussein's troops...
Meanwhile, U.N. inspectors just back from Iraq reported yesterday that Baghdad did not properly destroy all of its massive "supergun," which was capable of raining shells on Israel or Saudi Arabia...
...ballistic inspection team, part the Special Commission overseeing the dismantling of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, told superiors that 22 sections of the supergun barrel and some hydraulic buffers were not properly destroyed, as ordered by a previous inspection visit, officials said...