Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...invade a neighboring state, and you'll be sorry. But now the loser in the war has exploited an awkward corollary: stay on your own territory, wrap yourself in the cloak of sovereignty, and you can do anything you want. Having been punished for violating the sanctity of borders, Saddam Hussein has found protection behind that same principle as he commits atrocities against his own citizens...
Before and during the war, Bush constantly compared Saddam with Adolf Hitler. Now critics are asking why the Butcher of Baghdad -- and Karbala and Kirkuk -- is still President of Iraq. The answer is that since withdrawing from Kuwait, Saddam has been playing by accepted rules; his abominations are once again in the category of internal affairs. Which suggests a disturbing line of speculation about Hitler himself: What if the Fuhrer had resisted the temptations of conquest and been content with the real estate of the Weimar Republic to build the Third Reich, complete with gas chambers and ovens? Would...
...decide the '92 election, it will be important. Since Gore voted to grant Bush war powers in January--a vote that has gained enough symbolic value to make a 1992 bid impossible for Mr. Sanctions, Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.)--he can neutralize charges that Democrats would have appeased Saddam Hussein...
Attack on the issues. Negative campaigning gets bad press, but it wins lots of votes. The Democrats must start the battle early. Bush must be battered for appeasing Saddam Hussein until last August and abandoning the Kurds after encouraging a rebellion. And right now, it looks as though Saddam will remain in power at least through 1992; Gore and others must continue to charge Bush with giving up too soon...
...future is grim. The United States will sell more than $20 billion in weapons to countries in the Middle East this year. One should not be surprised if some end up in Saddam Hussein's hands. The Kissingerian logic which has guided Bush's policy prescribes "striving for an equilibrium between Iraq, Iran, Syria and other regional powers." With reports that Syria has already spent more than one billion coalition dollars on guns, the Iraqi side of the equation may need some shoring up. This Realpolitik would approach farce--if there were not dead bodies everywhere...