Word: iraq
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...have contained the daily digest of National Security Agency intercepts gathered by ultrasecret satellites and listening devices. These often bear the special code-word classification UMBRA, a category beyond TOP SECRET, reserved for the most sensitive electronic intelligence. Most riveting would have been pages of NSA intercepts dealing with Iraq. Typically, the NSA targets not only hostile countries but also U.S. allies...
...first week of February, and the U.S.S. Independence was steaming into the Persian Gulf bearing its complement of attack aircraft to begin the bombing of Iraq. In Washington, the U.S. national-security apparatus continued its countdown to armed conflict. The prospects for war largely depended on sensitive diplomatic negotiations centered on the U.N. Inside knowledge of those secret discussions could give an adversary or even an ally an edge over Washington, as the White House struggled to prevent countries like France and Russia from letting Saddam Hussein off the hook...
...bizarre coincidence of the breaking of the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal and the crisis in Iraq as the movie Wag the Dog opened seemed to be the epitome of life imitating art. Yet most of us misread the imitation. The real Wag the Dog phenomenon in the Clinton scandal is not about using Saddam to distract from Monica. Rather, it is about using the increased attention on the President to distract from the crisis facing the Democratic Party. The problem facing the Democrats is not Clinton's extracurricular activities. It's the sad truth that their party just doesn...
...Cold War has been an overriding theme in recent U.S. diplomacy. Looking at the stories in Reversing Relations, one can consider all six of the formerly hostile states discussed in the book as either direct or indirect results of the Cold War. Even the U.S.'s troubles with Iraq stem from Iran's Soviet backing during the Iran-Iraq...
...criteria it falls short of expectations. The article on the recent history of the United States' relationship with China, a topic about which countless books and papers have been written, condenses this immense subject into 20 pages. Any one of the other essays--involving the Soviet Union, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Iraq, and Cuba--are also much more complex than can be expressed in such a small space...