Word: rebellion
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...pilgrimage to Mecca. They were certain that the U.S. and its allies -- who had repeatedly urged Iraqis to throw off Saddam's yoke -- would come to their aid. But their joy lasted for only one cruel moment. By the end of March, Saddam's loyal forces had crushed the rebellion, and the Kurds awoke to their perpetual nightmare: defeat and flight...
...dream. An uprising that began on March 4 in the town of Rania spread like a sandstorm to engulf all Iraqi Kurdistan. The peshmerga (those who face death), as the rebel fighters are called, did not need to capture towns, as local Iraqi Kurdish militiamen spontaneously joined the rebellion. Fighter Kamal Kirkuki repeated joyfully to all who would listen, "We Kurds are finally free." Jails were thrown open; prisoners set at liberty. Kurds spoke openly of their travails without fear of retribution from Baghdad's once omnipresent spies. Even the discovery of the horrors of Saddam's torture camps -- corpses...
Attack on the issues. Negative campaigning gets bad press, but it wins lots of votes. The Democrats must start the battle early. Bush must be battered for appeasing Saddam Hussein until last August and abandoning the Kurds after encouraging a rebellion. And right now, it looks as though Saddam will remain in power at least through 1992; Gore and others must continue to charge Bush with giving up too soon...
...gobbled up by neighboring Iran, Syria and Turkey, leading to instability throughout the Middle East. Or the rebels might provoke other multi-ethnic states to splinter. The Kurds, for example, have said they seek only autonomy within a federated Iraq, but American officials think that after a successful rebellion the Kurds would declare outright independence. That in turn would inspire agitation among Kurdish minorities in Turkey, Syria and Iran to join a Greater Kurdistan...
Last year all 55 Democratic Senators voted as one in a failed attempt to override President Bush's veto of the 1990 Civil Rights Act. So what's holding up Ted Kennedy from introducing a new version of the bill this year? The problem: a mini-rebellion by at least half a dozen first-term Senators who are up for re-election and terrified that Republican challengers will smear them for supporting "racial quotas." Chuck Robb of Virginia, chairman of the Democratic campaign committee, confirms that he is "working with several people for a bill that can get signed." Translation...