Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER DEADLINE. AND ANOTHER backdown by Saddam Hussein, for what seems like the zillionth time. This time the Iraqi dictator had moved surface-to-air missiles into position to shoot down allied planes enforcing the no-fly zone established by the U.N. over southern Iraq. That provoked yet another Western ultimatum, this one joining the U.S., Britain, France and Russia. Its essence: get those missiles out by 5:30 p.m. New York time Friday (exactly 48 hours after the ultimatum was put in the hands of Iraqi Ambassador Nizar Hamdoon at U.N. headquarters in Manhattan), or else...
...long? The moves continued a pattern aptly dubbed "cheating and retreating." On one occasion after another -- most notably when inspectors were trying to get into suspected nuclear-bombmaking sites -- Saddam has defied U.N. restrictions on his activities only to pull back just enough, and just in time, to avoid provoking a new round of shooting and bombing. The latest probes began around Christmas, when Iraqi jets flew into the exclusion zone established to protect Saddam's rebellious Shi'ite subjects from air raids. American planes shot down an Iraqi jet Dec. 27, but that apparently moved Saddam to send...
...WORKINGS OF HIS MIND ARE A MYSTERY TO ORdinary people and foreign policy analysts alike, but Saddam Hussein may have thought he could take advantage of the transition in Washington to violate the U.N. coalition's no-fly zone in southern Iraq. He miscalculated. On Dec. 27 a pair of Iraqi MiGs committed the double offense of entering the zone and then turning to confront U.S. F-16s. The American aircraft shot down one MiG; the other fled to Iran. Iraqi officials blasted the incident as "blatant aggression." President Bush said the shootdown was consistent with the need to enforce...
Even as he packed for Somalia and Moscow, Bush issued warnings to two aggressors. After a U.S. plane shot down an Iraqi jet over the no-fly zone the U.N. imposed in southern Iraq, the President warned Saddam Hussein not to think he could take advantage of the impending change of Administration in Washington to test international restraints...
However, it is questionable whether the allied cause became more legitimate with Assad's approval. Assad is often described as a smarter, slier version of Saddam Hussein--with a record that includes the massacre of 20,000 of his own subjects in the city of Hama...