Word: iraqis
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Seven years after Arthur Kent and Peter Arnett reported live from Baghdad with American jets dropping bombs overhead, after Israeli cities were hit with Scud missiles, after thousands of Iraqi civilians were killed, the threat of American military action in Iraq looms large once again...
Fortunately, an agreement brokered this weekend by Kofi Annan, the Secretary General of the United Nations, may avert armed conflict for the time being, pending U.S. agreement. The deal would allow U.N. weapons inspectors into Iraqi sites for an undetermined time--a key concession by Iraq. It appears to be a deal Clinton can and should accept...
...force would at this point seem both unnecessary and inhumane--in addition to likely being ineffective. A limited bombing strike would not get rid of Hussein. According to a U.S. military estimate reported in the New York Times last week, a four-day limited strike would cost 1,500 Iraqi deaths. It would further raise anti-U.S. sentiment among the people of the Middle East. And it would alienate a number of our allies...
Only a serious long-term strategy for bringing democracy to Iraq and for ousting Saddam Hussein from power can serve the interests of America, of the Iraqi people and of world peace. If and when the current crisis subsides, it is to this dilemma we should turn our attention...
...While believing that action was necessary to ensure Iraqi compliance, 10-year-old Noah of New York sounded like a National Security Council veteran with his suggestion that "we should make every effort to solve the problem through diplomacy, and if we start a war, we have to define what our criteria for winning will...