Word: oust
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...Five days into the war, Saddam's regime has not collapsed, even though the overwhelming superiority of the forces deployed by U.S. military commanders makes its eventual demise inevitable. The crucial test of the duration and cost in human lives of the campaign to oust the regime may come within days, as coalition forces engage with key Republican Guard divisions deployed to make the battle for Baghdad as bloody as possible. Coalition forces will hope to draw them into a fight outside of the city and cut their lines of retreat back into the densely populated capital. But the streets...
...Historians appreciative of the nuances of power and conflict will almost certainly deduce that Gulf War II was created by a combination of all of these factors, and many others. It was clear long before President Bush's speech on Monday that the U.S. plans to invade Iraq to oust Saddam Hussein...
...Bush really is the imperialist boob that protesters make him out to be, he sure doesn’t sound like one. His hope for democracy in Iraq explains why many Republicans and Democrats feel that the U.S. must oust Saddam Hussein, without global consensus if necessary. Iraq can prosper under democratic rule, and democracy also provides a political foundation for the peace that protesters supposedly want. The U.S. must sometimes resort to military intervention to create real peace—a peace that demands Iraqis have the democratic freedoms denied to them by Saddam. Challenging a repressive status...
...Great Britain, is just not going to come. With implacable French and German opposition—and now the prospect of Russia also joining their antiwar alliance—multilateral intervention is no longer a possibility. Nor is the idea that the Bush administration will abandon its determination to oust Saddam Hussein...
...action may be delayed, possibly until the end of March. But listening to President Bush's promises on everything from providing humanitarian assistance to Iraqi refugees to doing everything possible to avoid Iraqi civilian casualties, there could be little doubt that with or without UN authorization, he plans to oust Saddam Hussein...