Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last fall, I was so outraged by Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait that I volunteered to serve in Operation Desert Shield. I did this despite the fact that I was beginning my second year at the Business School...
...SADDAM HUSSEIN'S talent for survival is surpassed only by his insouciance in the face of global condemnation. The Iraqi dictator has set up an arms- manufacturing and -acquisition operation in Tunisia, according to Africa Confidential, a respected newsletter published in Britain. State Department officials say they have proof that Saddam is using the North African republic as a clearinghouse for black-market weapons purchases to confound the United Nations team monitoring Iraq's chemical- and nuclear-arms program...
That issue came up during the debate over whether the U.S. should use force to expel Saddam Hussein from Kuwait. Buchanan charged that there were "only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the Middle East -- the Israeli defense ministry and its amen corner in the U.S." New York Times columnist A.M. Rosenthal accused Buchanan of anti-Semitism and "blood libel" (a reference to the canard leveled by bigots since the Middle Ages that Jews kill Christian children and use their blood in making Passover matzo). Rosenthal's attack was so outrageous that Buchanan survived the storm...
UNITED NATIONS--U.N. officials yesterday reported the easing of a financial crunch that threatened to dissolve the U.N. force protecting Kurds in northern Iraq from attacks by Saddam Hussein's troops...
...just for its own use but also for export. As part of the round robin among the secret developers, North Korea early this year sold to Syria (which may have a fledgling nuclear-weapons program of its own) a batch of Scuds; they carry bigger warheads than the missiles Saddam Hussein launched against Israel and Saudi Arabia...