Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just six months ago, it was hard to imagine anything much worse than the prospect of Saddam Hussein and his million-man army in control of Kuwait and one-fifth of the world's oil reserves. But an even more frightening specter has since emerged: a wounded and vengeful Saddam with a smaller army whose best punch is an atom bomb...
...that it is so much easier for people to vent their grievances, pursue their aspirations and raise their flags, George Bush's instincts, formed during the cold war, sometimes seem outmoded. He has been too quick to endorse the status quo. By defeating Saddam Hussein but then letting him remain the President of Iraq, Bush chose the devil he knew over the uncertainties represented by Kurdish and Shi'ite rebels. In his response to the dizzying events in the U.S.S.R. and Yugoslavia, Bush has been slow to realize that multinational communist states are, almost by definition, relics of a cruel...
...Security Council denounced the incident as a violation of the cease-fire agreement that ended the gulf war, and George Bush thundered, "We can't permit this brutal bully ((Saddam Hussein)) to go back on this solemn agreement." In theory, the U.S. and its allies could resume air attacks if Saddam does not turn over the calutrons and any other bombmaking gear for destruction, as the cease-fire resolution commands. At minimum, they will continue the trade embargo that is strangling the Iraqi economy...
However that comes out, the contretemps spotlights a broader problem: only the unprecedented rights to prowl everywhere and look at anything in the country that the U.N. gained because of the cease-fire have enabled it to expose Saddam's cheating. If Iraq had to contend with just the regular inspections of known nuclear facilities, required by the 1970 nuclear nonproliferation treaty, which it signed, it might be well on the way to reviving a bomb-building program that allied bombing was intended to interrupt. As recently as last November, IAEA inspectors toured the nuclear facilities Baghdad acknowledged possessing...
...crushed Saddam Hussein's war machine and became an overnight TV star when he told the nation how he did it. He won standing ovations in Congress, cheers along parade routes and pleas to run for office. What more is left for General Norman Schwarzkopf than that final ratification of modern-day success, the best-selling autobiography? For months publishers have been salivating at the prospect of putting Schwarzkopf's life and thoughts between covers. Now Bantam Books has won the right to publish his memoirs, for a hefty price: more than $5 million for worldwide rights, probably the most...