Word: iraq
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Papandreou cited problems with the current world order. He referred to the situations in Iraq and Yugoslavia, where violence directed at the government was deflected unto the citizens of then country...
...purpose of deposing an authoritarian ruler [in Iraq], human suffering became subordinate to other political objectives," Papandreou added...
Washington had previously been skeptical of European initiatives, such as the plan to provide heating oil to cities controlled by the opposition, but now appears to have come around to a more subtle approach. "The blanket isolation of Serbia was only ever going to freeze the situation Iraq-style and actually consolidate Milosevic's grip on power," says TIME Central Europe bureau reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "The new approach gives the opposition much greater leverage - by dangling an end to sanctions - to force a free and fair election. And if the opposition doesn't participate in an election...
...believe it is vitally important to use the Vieques range," she said. "Recent operations in Iraq and Kosovo have shown how important it is to be ready [for combat...
...Last December's Iraq Liberation Act commits Washington to supply $97 million in military aid to the Iraqi opposition. But that opposition is so small and fiercely divided along personality, ethnic and ideological lines - some key groups boycotted the New York meeting to avoid being tainted as U.S. pawns - as to make it something of a fiction in the real strategic equation. The military training that begins in Florida this week involves teaching four men, in civilian attire, such topics as the role of the military in a democracy. Not exactly menacing stuff, but it may reflect what's being...