Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Glaspie's impressive appearance before the committees left legislators all the more puzzled over why the Administration had refused to rebut the Iraqi version or clear up doubts about her toughness. Loyally, Glaspie refused to complain. "The Administration wanted to work on its job of collecting a coalition and winning the war," she explained. State Department officials, concerned that Iraq might release an embarrassing tape of the meeting, said last week that the U.S. had wanted to avoid "a debate" over the transcript during the diplomatic and war effort. Added Glaspie: "Now the war is over, and I was sent...
...with respect, which is not how the Administration had behaved toward the 25-year foreign-service veteran, one of its top Arabists and the first woman to head a Middle East embassy. Ordered home on July 30 for consultations, Glaspie was not allowed to return to Baghdad. When the Iraqi transcript was made public, State Department officials said omissions had been made but it was basically accurate. Asked last fall about Glaspie's instructions for the meeting with Saddam, Secretary of State James Baker made no effort to support his ambassador. "What you want me to do is say that...
...posts, that of Prime Minister, and named a new 24-member Cabinet. The new Prime Minister, Saadoun Hammadi, formerly deputy PM, is a Shi'ite and, within the context of the ruling Baath Party, is considered a moderate. But the changes are unlikely to convince the Iraqi masses that the regime has truly turned over a new leaf, especially since the ironhanded Interior Minister, Ali Hassan Majid, has kept his job. "The Cabinet is window dressing," says a U.S. government expert on Iraq. "It doesn't make any decisions anyway...
...conflicting objectives of keeping Iraq whole and bringing Saddam down have produced what a close adviser to President Bush frankly calls a "muddle" in U.S. policy. While refusing to give actual aid to the rebels, Washington has hampered Saddam's ability to subdue them by refusing to allow Iraqi warplanes to fly. The U.S. enforced that prohibition last week when it shot down two Iraqi Su-22 fighter-bombers in northern Iraq. Washington, however, has so far turned a blind eye to Iraqi helicopter attacks on the rebels...
Over the years, the Syrians, Iranians and Turks have quietly supplied military aid to Iraqi Kurds. But the assistance was only enough to create a nuisance for Baghdad, never enough to enable the Kurds to break loose...