Word: iraqi
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Escalating the conflict, however, raises the political risk. Intensified bombing would inevitably bring greater civilian casualties, and with a United Nations report released Thursday showing that the death rate among Iraqi children under age 5 has doubled in the era of U.N. sanctions, will only add to the disquiet of Washington?s Arab and European allies over U.S. Iraq policy (even if, as Washington insists, much of that suffering is caused by Saddam?s failure to distribute humanitarian supplies allowed through under the embargo). In addition, as a senior administration official told the Times, unless the U.S. and its allies...
...from being anomalies, U.S. intelligence failures of this sort seem to be de rigeur. During the Gulf war scores of Iraqi civilian buildings hit by American bombs were later admitted by the US government to have been mistakenly identified as military installations. In May of 1998 India's nuclear tests caught US intelligence completely unawares--the CIA was later faulted for having overlooked information clearly indicating the approach of the tests. In August of 1998 the U.S. launched missiles on a Sudanese pharmaceuticals plant based on CIA reports whose linking of the plant to terrorist activities has since been revealed...
...from being anomalies, U.S. intelligence failures of this sort seem to be de rigeur. During the Gulf war scores of Iraqi civilian buildings hit by American bombs were later admitted by the US government to have been mistakenly identified as military installations. In May of 1998 India's nuclear tests caught US intelligence completely unawares--the CIA was later faulted for having overlooked information clearly indicating the approach of the tests. In August of 1998 the U.S. launched missiles on a Sudanese pharmaceuticals plant based on CIA reports whose linking of the plant to terrorist activities has since been revealed...
This is where my past and Goodman's intersect. I have dodged mortar shells in Bosnia and once kissed a photo of Saddam Hussein on orders from Iraqi soldiers, but never have I been more terrified than on a lovely day in May 1988, with Goodman at my side...
Next in Fritz's survey is the U.S. war with Iraq. In describing the pathetic state of the Iraqi army, he quotes a U.S. official in an Iraqi POW camps saying "We were looking for warriors. Here we got these wimps." All the same, Fritz's summary of the war against Iraqis is sickening in its glorification of the brutality exercised on what he admits to be toothless Iraqi military: "The mission was proof of the last superpower's capacity to halt catastrophe when it summoned the sufficient courage...At no time in history had one ideology and one nation...