Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...does not need to agree with the council's stance on ROTC to understand that Rudenstine and Knowles should abide by the Faculty Council's ultimatum. It is useful here to consider the Congressional debate before the Gulf War. President Bush--rightly or wrongly--issued an ultimatum to Saddam, granting Congress only the last-minute right of refusal. Congress's decision was limited by the fact that the ultimatum had already been made, and that backing down would involve serious loss of face...
Almost weekly now, either publicly or privately, Bush sends a message to Saddam Hussein to live by the truce signed last March. "I intend to see that he abides by every one of those U.N. resolutions," Bush tells his staff. The President is unwavering in his belief that the time has come for the U.S. to assert its interests in the Middle East, even when it means opposing Israel...
...same time, concern about the scope of President Saddam Hussein's nuclear program increased when U.N. officials disclosed that secret documents seized by an inspection team last month showed Iraq had produced small amounts of lithium-6, a chemical used only in hydrogen bombs. The substance was kept at the Al-Atheer weapons center 40 miles south of Baghdad, a facility virtually unscathed by the war. While a team of experts flew to Iraq to begin searching for evidence of a potential H-bomb, the U.N. Security Council drafted a resolution aimed at preventing Iraq from ever regaining a nuclear...
...most egregious case of this preference for dictators, particularly for their ability to bring "stability" to those parts of the world deemed * too primitive to tolerate democracy, is Saddam Hussein. For it was Bush who saved Saddam. In the crucial days after the gulf war, when the Shi'ite south and the Kurdish north were in revolt, Saddam was hanging by a thread. The Administration could easily have tipped the balance against him. It chose not to. It stayed its hand -- muted its threats and grounded its aircraft -- in the name of stability and the unity of the Iraqi state...
True, Bush would have preferred and called many times for another Baathist to put a bullet through Saddam's head. His first choice was Saddamism without Saddam. But his second choice was Saddamism with Saddam...