Word: iraqis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...director for ethics violations, Barr's Justice Department must now endure the attentions of an "independent counsel," drafted by Barr to investigate the roiling dispute between his department and the CIA over whether the government obstructed the investigation of an illegal scheme to funnel $4 billion to the Iraqi regime before the invasion of Kuwait...
Perhaps Bush's greatest foreign policy failure, ironically, was his handling of Iraq in the months preceding the Gulf War. For years, the U.S. directly aided the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein and helped build up his military with weapons sales. Then, in the weeks before Hussein invaded Kuwait, Bush appeased the dictator through Ambassador April Glaspie. Just days before the invasion, in fact, Glaspie told Hussein that the U.S. had "no opinion" on the "border disagreement with Kuwait...
...Bill Clinton, for one, has said that Bush should have ordered a "slight lengthening of the war" to destroy more Iraqi military in the south, where the Shiites face such danger...
...Though small, the vote last week was free enough to enable a coalition opposed to the regime of Sheik Jaber al-Ahmed al-Sabah to win 31 of 50 parliamentary seats. The government can expect sharp debate over its unpreparedness for the 1990 invasion by Iraq. Kuwaiti-Iraqi tensions remain so high that last week Chad Hall, a U.S. munitions expert working to clear ordnance inside Kuwait, was briefly taken prisoner by Iraqis who apparently thought he had crossed the unmarked border...
...than a year before democracy was massacred in Tiananmen Square: "The changes in China since Barbara and I lived there are absolutely amazing in terms of incentives and partnerships and things of that nature." No reporter was clairvoyant enough to ask the Vice President to assess the intentions of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. But Bush brought up Iraq himself as a way of dodging a politically tricky question about arms sales to Iran. To the Vice President in 1988 -- two years before Iraq invaded Kuwait -- stability in the Persian Gulf was a triumph of Reagan-era diplomacy. "Should we have...