Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Democratic chairmen of both committees asked the State Department to release Glaspie's cable describing her meeting with Saddam. If the State Department refuses, the issue will remain one of Saddam's word against Glaspie's. "I hope my credibility is at least as great as Saddam Hussein's," she said. Judging from her testimony, it is the Administration that must worry about credibility, not April Glaspie...
...capital and the fortune are looking more attainable than ever to Iraq's Kurdish minority. After struggling for most of this century for control of their homeland, which happens to sit atop some of Iraq's richest oil fields, the Kurds have wrested large portions of it from Saddam Hussein's disheveled forces. Though their gains are far from irreversible, this time the Kurds appear to have a chance of holding on and, in the end, winning at least a form of autonomy. Says a beaming Hoshyar Zebari, spokesman for the Kurdistan Democratic Party: "This is the nearest...
...successes of the Kurds in Iraq's north as well as those of predominantly Shi'ite rebels staging a simultaneous uprising in the south have plainly spooked Saddam. Last weekend in an apparent bid to soothe popular discontent, Saddam relinquished one of his posts, that of Prime Minister, and named a new 24-member Cabinet. The new Prime Minister, Saadoun Hammadi, formerly deputy PM, is a Shi'ite and, within the context of the ruling Baath Party, is considered a moderate. But the changes are unlikely to convince the Iraqi masses that the regime has truly turned over...
...Saddam is not the only one worried about the Kurds; the allies, who, by enfeebling Saddam, made the Kurdish victories possible, are concerned too. The Kurdish leadership professes a modest aim -- autonomy within a democratic Iraq. But suspicions run deep that the real agenda is, as it has been in the past, independence, a break from Baghdad clean and neat. That is an outcome $ none of the allies desire. For one thing, they do not want to be held responsible for Iraq's partition. For another, the Kurds in Turkey, Syria, Iran and the Soviet Union might come down with...
...same time, the allies are rooting for Saddam's downfall, a result the Kurdish uprising may be making more likely. The conflicting objectives of keeping Iraq whole and bringing Saddam down have produced what a close adviser to President Bush frankly calls a "muddle" in U.S. policy. While refusing to give actual aid to the rebels, Washington has hampered Saddam's ability to subdue them by refusing to allow Iraqi warplanes to fly. The U.S. enforced that prohibition last week when it shot down two Iraqi Su-22 fighter-bombers in northern Iraq. Washington, however, has so far turned...