Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...opinion and ethnic coloration, including Islamists with Shi'ite and Sunni subdivisions, Kurd separatists, Arab nationalists, communists and liberal democrats. Their only common goal is to depose Saddam, but after that come conflicting agendas. The most robust of the groups, at least in p.r. terms, is Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress. The I.N.C. once united nearly two-dozen factions and earned support from Washington, but it has fallen on hard times. Internal feuds and well-publicized failures have melted its credibility. Another group, the Amman-based Iraqi National Accord, tries to cultivate dissent inside the Iraqi army in hopes...
...nice reward--broad hints of accelerating the move to lift the economic embargo of Iraq--if Saddam would just act nice. Saddam responded with his "Swiss cheese" letter, a disingenuous, heavily hedged show of compliance with U.N. demands that was, in fact, a prescription for more Iraqi "cheat and retreat" on weapons inspections. Nonetheless, the very transmittal of that letter, as yet unparsed, was enough to prompt President Clinton to recall his bombers in midflight...
Then, while the U.S. remained "poised to strike" if the holes in the cheese were not filled, Annan fatally undermined the U.S. position when his personal representative in Baghdad pronounced the letter unconditional Iraqi acceptance of U.N. terms...
Doctors combatting malignant tumors often resort to radical surgery to cut out the diseased tissue. So why can't the U.S. military perform a total Saddamectomy? The idea is bubbling anew in Congress and among Bush Administration advisers who passed up the chance to remove the Iraqi dictator in 1991, when U.S. troops were in his neighborhood. But it's not a serious topic in the Pentagon tank, the top-secret meeting room in which the Joint Chiefs of Staff plot strategy. In fact, Marine General Anthony Zinni, who as chief of the U.S. Central Command would oversee...
...survived the aerial onslaught, the land campaign would try to pin him and his loyalists down in greater Baghdad. As the U.S. Army tightened its noose around Saddam, he'd be tempted to unleash whatever nuclear, chemical and biological weapons he has squirreled away. While the war raged, Iraqi skies also would be filled with U.S. broadcasts urging Iraqis to abandon Saddam and embrace a new national leader...