Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Saddam Hussein, of course, is still in power. The average American is probably pretty confused by Bush's failure to eliminate the dictator of Iraq, the guy whose picture graces their Desert Storm trading cards. Bush whipped up support for the war with crude jingoism--now, those same jingoists are going to be disappointed by the mere liberation of Kuwait...
...Scowcroft's influence was perhaps most evident in Bush's handling of the gulf war. While the two men were angling for bluefish off the Maine coast a year ago, Scowcroft suggested the strategy Bush would pursue over the following year, predicting that sanctions would fail to oust Saddam Hussein from Kuwait, that war would be necessary, but that the U.S. should not expand its objective to include Saddam's removal from power...
Even as the latest round in this fitful contest was being played, a few Iraqi citizens talked as defiantly as they had before the war. During a week's visit to Iraq, photographer Les Stone was told that Iraq would always need a strongman like Saddam, if only to keep foreigners off its soil. "I'd fight the Americans again if they came," said a hotel worker in Baghdad...
Stone, who has taken pictures in such war zones as Ethiopia and Panama, sensed that in some quarters, respect for Saddam may be wearing thin, not only because of losses in the gulf war but also because of the toll of the earlier eight-year conflict with Iran. A taxi driver whose two brothers died in that war told Stone that he hated Saddam, but quickly added, "This conversation did not take place...
...Saturday, after four days of this not-quite-ordeal, Kay's team was able to leave, taking with it documents relating to Iraq's nuclear bomb program that it had found in a building adjoining the parking lot. Saddam Hussein's government had at first insisted that the documents be handed back. But it later amended that to require only that they be cataloged and registered, and the U.N. Security Council agreed...