Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cornered George Bush at a conference on a cruise ship off the Florida coast. During dinner Salinger rose from his table and went unbidden to the former President's, where he aggressively offered Bush his view that the Gulf War could have been avoided if the U.S. had sent Saddam Hussein a clearer message of its intention to defend Kuwait. Witnesses say that eventually Salinger had to be coaxed away from Bush...
...criticism of Clinton's missile attacks against Saddam Hussein made the White House wince...
...showdown of Saddam Hussein in the Persian Gulf just five years ago appears today as a cultural relic of the '90s, another touchstone of popular culture created for our general consumption. It was the closest that our generation has come to large scale international conflict, thank God. We all watched the war on television, but few if any Harvardians partook...
...fixable [NATION, Sept. 16]. How can the U.S. or anyone else provide safety and stability to a people who have never got along with their neighbors and who cannot even agree among themselves? The U.S. may spend billions of dollars to buy the allegiance of the Kurds against Saddam Hussein, but the Kurds, understanding the political realities on the ground, will not stay bought. The fact that one party of Kurds begged the succor of Saddam, the man who gassed about 4,000 Kurds only eight years earlier, should not be surprising to anyone who remembers that Iraq asked Iran...
...Iraqi bombing and invasion of the city of Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan is not an internal Iraqi affair. Erbil is situated inside the safe-haven zone imposed by the U.N. in 1991. Since the invasion of Kuwait, the Arab world has expelled Saddam and his regime. Since then, he has broken every law in the book. The Arab countries, in objecting to the American air strike, give the impression that they didn't like President Clinton's support of the Kurds. But why didn't they object to the air strikes on southern Iraq in 1993 and 1994? Why didn...