Word: rejection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should not reject the option of a cease-fire. To foreclose this possibility and demand complete surrender as an alternative to any peace % negotiations, even after Saddam's expressed willingness to withdraw from Kuwait is confirmed, is to ensure a long and destructive war, a fragmentation of the alliance and the likelihood of a destabilized Middle East. Complete destruction of Iraq's army will leave the country defenseless against Iran and Syria. If we insist also that Saddam face trial as a war criminal, then he is not likely to yield except as an act of finality and hopelessness, regardless...
...Iraq did not clearly reject the possibility of a quick withdrawal...
...respondents will likely grow more and more opposed to the war as the human costs of it escalate. Whereas your analysis presents community interest as polarized and well defined, the reality is that many students continue to waver, not entirely comfortable with U.S. policy, but not informed enough to reject it outright. Theodore Timpson...
...President -- oil, aggression and cynicism about sanctions -- turned into a footnote once Congress voted; what mattered was that at last proper constitutional norms had been followed. How easy it had been during Vietnam (a war mounted under the dubious fig leaf of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution) to reject personal complicity in the carnage. Blame, as I do, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger for the names on the wailing wall in Washington. But today, for the first time in my life, I freely accept, as an American citizen, responsibility for a war and the terrible human suffering that...
...battle. Yet virtually no one wants to rescind the budget deal and thereby widen the menacing federal deficit. While the Senate Budget Committee debated a resolution last week to roll back the agreement and halt the burdensome tax increases in light of the recession, lawmakers voted 21-0 to reject the proposal...