Word: saddamism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bush again pressed the bank on Saddam's behalf. Hoping to bring good news to an upcoming meeting with Iraqi Ambassador Nizar Hamdoon, he successfully urged the new bank chairman, John A. Bohn Jr., to provide another $200 million in loan guarantees the bank had earlier denied. At his meeting with Hamdoon, Bush was also able to assure the ambassador that because two more export licenses had been approved -- over Pentagon objections -- Iraq would soon have permission to make two long-sought purchases of American high technology. Eventually hundreds of export licenses would be approved to sell Iraq more than...
...Administration's critics maintain that it was a sign of White House blindness that it continued to court Saddam even after evidence emerged in the BNL probe of substantial Iraqi misuse of the loan-guarantee program. This week Texas Democrat Jack Brooks, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, will hold hearings on whether to call on the Justice Department to appoint a special prosecutor to determine if the Agriculture Department's program was improperly used...
...paper trail emanating from the Gonzalez hearings depicts a long, costly courtship of Saddam. In its early stages, during Ronald Reagan's first term, it was intended to serve a plausible policy assumption: by helping Iraq in its war against Iran, the U.S. would counter Iranian influence in the Middle East while encouraging Baghdad to moderate its own policies. In 1982, three years after Jimmy Carter placed Iraq on the State Department's list of nations supporting terrorism, Ronald Reagan removed Iraq from the list, reopening the way for U.S. aid. The Reagan Administration moved quickly to provide Iraq with...
...essential imports. Gold Fields Minerals Services, a London-based consulting firm, reported last week that in the past six months Iraq may have secretly sold off up to 50 tons of its bullion reserve, which was last reported, in 1977, to stand at 129 tons. That could explain how Saddam came up with enough hard cash to thumb his nose at a United Nations offer to let him sell $1.6 billion in oil to buy much needed food and medical products abroad...
...George Bush once too eager to help Saddam Hussein...