Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Justice Department and the Bush Administration. Even if it amounts to a mere bureaucratic botch, the tussle over who misled the public allows Democrats to renew calls for a special prosecutor to examine whether the White House tried to cover up its efforts to coddle Saddam Hussein before the invasion of Kuwait...
...year before democracy was massacred in Tiananmen Square: "The changes in China since Barbara and I lived there are absolutely amazing in terms of incentives and partnerships and things of that nature." No reporter was clairvoyant enough to ask the Vice President to assess the intentions of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. But Bush brought up Iraq himself as a way of dodging a politically tricky question about arms sales to Iran. To the Vice President in 1988 -- two years before Iraq invaded Kuwait -- stability in the Persian Gulf was a triumph of Reagan-era diplomacy. "Should we have listened...
...nose . Makes joke about stock market reaction to possible Clinton win--swooping hand motion emphasizes point . "I have no experience running up a $4 trillion debt." . "I'm all ears." . The lobbyists, under Perot, "Will all be in the Smithsonian." DOES NOT APPLY A Few of our Favorite Quotes . "Saddam Hussein, the dictator." . "Get those deadbeat fathers to pay up..." . "One of them Act-Up Groups..." . "...that human rights crowd" . "...that nuclear freeze crowd" . "China is a huge country broken into many provinces." . At a very early age [children] learn to learn." . "Talk is cheap...time is no longer...
...with the export approach is that it puts the U.S. government in the unseemly position of pimping for the military- industrial complex -- using taxpayers' money, for example, to set up arms fairs abroad. The other problem is that today's arms customer may be tomorrow's armed brigand, a Saddam with his own stock of U.S.-made missiles...
...PLEA BARGAIN IS AN UNUSUAL step in the U.S. court system. But just about everything in the continuing legal saga of Christopher Drogoul is unusual. Though Drogoul pleaded guilty in June to 60 of 347 counts that he made $4 billion in illegal loans to Iraq before Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, a prosecutor announced last week that the government was no longer willing to honor that agreement because the defendant lied throughout his three-week sentencing hearing...