Word: ouster
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...Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby’s ouster of Lewis last month ruffled some feathers...
...Saddam's ouster has also significantly increased the U.S. strategic presence in the region, raising questions about what sort of military facilities the Americans will ask for or get from a new Iraqi government. But recent war also showed that you didn't need a major commitment from Saudi Arabia to achieve U.S. military goals in the region - the Gulf States and U.S. aircraft carriers were able to stage much of the air war, because the Saudis didn't want the U.S. to fly direct combat missions against Iraq from their territory. Still, the relationship worked pretty well during...
...Dean has continued to beat the anti-war drums. "We've gotten rid of him," Dean said of Saddam Hussein's ouster. "I suppose that's a good thing." Pressed again last week on CNN, Dean refused to concede that Iraq is better off without Saddam. And two weeks ago, while campaigning at a Stonyfield yogurt factory in New Hampshire, the would-be Commander-in-Chief suggested that America should be planning for a time when it is not the world's greatest superpower : "We have to take a different approach [to diplomacy]. We won't always have the strongest...
There is no doubt that the ouster of Saddam Hussein can be accomplished only by force [NATION, March 17]. As a former soldier, I am quite certain that the arms concessions recently wrung from Iraq were in response to the presence of the thousands of U.S. and British troops. Saddam is a vile dictator who has brought misery to his people and many others in the states that surround him. I have done legal work on behalf of Iraqi refugees who were appealing refusals of requests for asylum in Britain and know firsthand of the torture, terror and butchery...
...governed once the coalition pulls the plug on Saddam Hussein's regime. Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld is reportedly urging President Bush to install a "provisional government" of Iraqi exiles who "share the president's objectives for a free Iraq." The U.S. may not even wait for Saddam's ouster; Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Richard Myers said Thursday that rather than fight street-by-street for the capital, coalition forces may simply isolate Iraq's ruler and his loyalists and allow an interim authority to begin governing the country...