Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feud with Saddam Hussein, George Bush is trying to be Gary Cooper in the climactic scene from High Noon. As the lanky sheriff faces down the archvillain, frightened townspeople peek out of the windows to see who will be left standing in the dusty street. "This planet's not big enough for the two of us," says the leader of the free world...
...Bush vs. Saddam. From the beginning of the Persian Gulf showdown, Bush personalized the conflict. He implied that Saddam's removal from power, if not from this world, was as much an American objective as his eviction from Kuwait. He denounced Saddam as "worse than Hitler." When hurled from the bully pulpit, such epithets have, as they say in Washington, policy implications. They create expectations and raise questions: Would Hitler have been allowed to remain the Fuhrer of Germany after World...
...Should the U.S. help the Kurds and Shi'ites in rebellion against Saddam...
...gulf war ended a year ago. If America wanted Saddam Hussein toppled by Kurds and Shi'ites, this should have been done by now. There is already an uprising in northern Iraq, and the people of Kurdish origin, of Turkish origin, of Iraqi origin, are miserable. There is no government control. There are tribes, mostly Kurdish, controlling the region. How can these poor people topple Saddam? Furthermore, I don't think anyone wants the Shi'ites to topple Saddam. That would mean an Iranian-style regime. I don't think Iraq's neighbors would be very happy about that...
...times change. An already weak economy plunged into a recessionary "freefall" (Bush's own term). United Nations investigators found that Saddam Hussein, entrenched as ever, still possessed nuclear technology. And voters increasingly demanded attention to domestic affairs and questioned Bush's leadership abilities...