Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ever brazen, Saddam Hussein dispatched Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz to the United Nations to demand an end to sanctions. With maximum bluster and minimum facts that left members rolling their eyes, Aziz accused the Security Council of genocide and portrayed Iraq as victim. The council countered with a litany of violated agreements, thwarted weapons inspections, abuses against Kurds and Shi'ite Muslims and, as Aziz was reminded, the continued suffering of the Iraqi people because Saddam is diverting food shipments to his security forces and the military. After two days Aziz left empty-handed...
...more ongoing effort is needed to help those who survive the concentration camps. In a comparable situation one-and-a-half years ago, Harvard students formed a group called Harvard Against Repression of the Kurds (HARK) to publicize and help alleviate the plight of the Kurdish refugees fleeing Saddam Hussein's oppression in the wake of the Gulf War. The group raised over $1,000 to assist U.N. relief efforts and organized petitions, forums and a campus benefit concert to raise attention to the humanitarian disaster in Iraq...
...Certainly. We are sorry for what is happening in Iraq. Our problem is not with Iraq, but with its ruler. This is a matter to be dealt with by the people of Iraq. Saddam Hussein is not going to live forever...
...believe the Gulf War coalition should have deposed Saddam...
...approve of any country entering another to appoint a ruler; that reminds us of colonialism. If a foreign power had appointed an Iraqi leader, it would have destroyed the will of the Iraqi people. It is true that Saddam Hussein has imposed himself on Iraqis, but he is an Iraqi. The Iraqi people have been struggling against him for a long time; I don't think any other country in the world has seen so many of its citizens leave as a result of a regime's cruelty...