Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...panelists alerted the audience of themagnified dangers which America faces as a resultof the Commonwealth's willingness to sell nucleararmaments to customers such as Saddam Hussein...
Like the Democratic primary campaign, the Republican race was settling into a two-man contest -- between Bush and his lesser self. Gone is the commander of Desert Storm, the man who confidently vowed that Saddam Hussein's aggression "will not stand." In his place is a calculating politician who whines about "flak." Rather than telling Americans why he wants another four years and what he intends to do with them, Bush is repudiating one of the few domestic accomplishments of his first term -- a successful budget compromise that cut and capped spending, raised taxes and reduced government borrowing by nearly...
...Saddam Hussein's Monument: An Exercise inThinking About Cultural Relativism--by KananMakiya, architect and author of Republic of Fearand The Monument: Art, Bulgarity, andResponsibility in Iraq. Wednesday, March 18, 5:30p.m. Moore Room, Building 6, Room 321, MIT. Free...
...Saddam Hussein's top diplomat, Tariq Aziz, insisted Iraq had met the most important of its obligations under Gulf War cease-fire terms and accused some nations of keeping sanctions in place for purely political reasons...
Once the crisis erupted, Baker reacted quickly and efficiently. His skills as negotiator and tactician proved essential in putting together the anti- Saddam alliance. But when Kuwait was liberated, the Administration's feeble political planning for the war's aftermath was laid bare. Concerned that a weakened Iraq might leave a vacuum for Iranian power to fill and prompt Turkish Kurds to join their Iraqi compatriots in a breakaway country, Washington stood back while Saddam turned his guns against Iraqi Kurds and Shi'ites. Comments an Administration official: "When Bush and Baker confront the breakup of a nation-state, whether...