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...many a labor negotiation begins with exorbitant union demands and a skinflint management offer that both sides know perfectly well are a charade). The Baghdad announcement marks "the beginning of the endgame," said William Quandt, a former chief Middle East analyst at the National Security Council. Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, agreed: "In the Arab world, you always have to be prepared for bargaining, and this may be the opening gambit." And Saddam, for all his intense stubbornness, could reverse course overnight if that seems necessary or desirable. Witness his blithe return to Iran...
Nearly every Democratic presidential hopeful in Congress voted against the force resolution. Opponents of the war included the predictable peace bloc, the entire Democratic leadership and even moderates like Sam Nunn and Lloyd Bentsen, not to mention other vaunted figures like Bill Bradley and David Boren. And New York Governor Mario Cuomo, whose inexperience in foreign affairs already hurts him, cravenly suggested that Saddam could be bought off with a couple of islands and some...
...only member of Congress who deviated from the "no draft, no how" pledge last week was Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.), chair of the Senate Armed Forces Committee, whose aides cited several news programs on which Nunn said that a war lasting several months would prompt discussion of the draft...
Even as the President was trying to line up bipartisan support, the Democratic leadership was leading the fight to give sanctions more time. The antiwar factions in both houses fell in behind nearly identical resolutions drafted by two presidential hopefuls: House majority leader Richard Gephardt and Georgia Senator Sam Nunn, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Nunn, with his hard-line reputation on most other military issues, was particularly important for attracting wavering Democrats...
...being--or worse yet, pulling out of the Gulf, as some peace activists are demanding--would be counterproductive and self-defeating. It would hand a victory to Saddam Hussein, giving him both the resolve to continue the war and the breathing space he needs to retrench. Both Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.), who led the fight against the use-of-force resolutions, and U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar, who made a last ditch appeal for peace, have spoken out against a unilateral cease-fire. One doesn't throw the first punch and then try to reason with...