Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many in the U.S. intelligence community, these estimates are too optimistic. Just when accurate assessments of Iraq's battle strength are most needed, a kind of stats war has broken out in Washington. "Norman's numbers on Iraqi kills are too high," says a Defense Department analyst. "If this proves to be the case in battle, he's in real hot water...
...Central Command maintains that the overall strength of the Iraqi forces has been reduced 40% to 50%, the goal allied commanders wanted to reach before launching a ground assault...
...what does this mean, that we want to stop naked ((Iraqi)) aggression? Does this mean that the United States will indeed become the policeman of the world...
...Students massacred in China, priests murdered in Central America, demonstrators gunned down in Lithuania -- these acts of violence are as wrong as Iraqi soldiers' killing civilians. We cannot oppose repression in one place and overlook it in another...
...does not intervene purely for reasons of morality. If it did, it would spend itself dry righting every wrong in the world. Nor does it act purely out of self-interest. If, for example, a genuine pro-Iraqi coup had led Kuwaitis to join voluntarily with Iraq, the U.S. would hardly have gone to war to reverse that action. (During the oil shocks of the 1970s, suggestions that the U.S. seize the oil fields of Arabia were never even taken seriously...