Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...took a day for officials in Dhaka to decide how to deal with her. Since the Nobel Peace laureate had flown in on a commercial flight, some officials argued that the materials needed to go through customs. About a month earlier, when Iraqi Kurds began fleeing en masse from Saddam Hussein's soldiers, the Iranian army struggled to cope with thousands of dying children. They were treated with antibiotics instead of rehydration salts, a more effective means of staving off life-threatening diarrhea...
Obviously afraid that just such a reading might stick, Javier Perez de Cuellar, the U.N. Secretary-General, has played a neat card: he asked Saddam for permission to police a part of his country. That Perez de Cuellar received the disastrous and predictable answer to a question he should never have asked testifies either to the U.N.'s underlying unwillingness to do what is right, or to Perez de Cuellar's fecklessness...
...George Bush has made the humanitarian task more difficult by cloaking the U.S. mission in self-defeating rhetoric. Stung by those who say he ended the gulf war too soon (which is arguable) and that he moved to aid the hapless Kurds too late after inciting them to overthrow Saddam (which isn't), the President is now bothered about the prospect of U.S. troops getting "bogged down" in a "further military" involvement, a "permanent presence" -- a "quagmire...
...Kurds feel safe. Germany and Japan should play a role, if only a financial one. British forces, particularly, should stay behind. It was Prime Minister John Major who first drew a distinction between observing a studied neutrality as between, say, Moscow and Vilnius, and seeing to it that Saddam is prohibited from murdering millions of his own citizens...
...Saddam ends his seclusion, and terror is again in style in Iraq...