Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...things getting a little tense in a certain embargoed outlaw country? According to a report in the Middle East Economic Survey today, Saddam Hussein has fired Iraq's planning minister for publishing an official report that the nation's inflation has reached astronomical levels -- 24,000 percent. The U.N. trade embargo imposed before the start of the Gulf War seems to be taking its toll: Saddam fired his agriculture minister in May for failing to check the skyrocketing price of food...
President Saddam Hussein ordered three senior Iraqi military officers executed and more than a dozen soldiers purged from the army, according to relatives of the dead quoted in the London Independent. The officers had expressed doubts about the qualifications of his eldest son Uday to fill the post of Defense Minister. Before the Cabinet reshuffle was announced, some officers were instructed to solicit the opinions of the senior commanders concerning Uday's standing, and they voiced concern about his lack of military training...
Second, and most significant in an era when coalition building is deemed a necessary requisite to military action, sanctions are an important step up the ladder to war. It took half a million troops to dislodge Saddam Hussein from Kuwait, but the alliance probably never would have come together if the sanctions that preceded the conflict had not invested America and its partners with a common sense of frustration at Baghdad's refusal to budge in the absence of force. The need to repel Iraq was appreciated because the world wanted the Middle East's oil at affordable prices...
...would be deadly. Nearly 90% of South Korean and U.S. regulars are positioned within 35 miles of the DMZ, in easy range of the North's huge assembly of artillery. U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry acknowledges that its weapons are larger and better than anything owned by Iraq's Saddam Hussein. They include hundreds of 240-mm rocket launchers and 170-mm Koksan guns, among the longest-range artillery weapons in the world. North Korea's 10,000 artillery pieces plus the rocket launchers can fire up to 20 million rounds of high explosives, fuel-air explosives and chemical weapons...
...Saddam is back in business rebuilding his military might...