Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jordan too will benefit. For months, gulf leaders coupled King Hussein with Saddam Hussein. "We didn't care if he met Saddam's fate, but reality intrudes," says a Kuwaiti official. "The Americans are right: no decent alternative exists. Middle East stability demands that we keep the King in power. We're prepared to help him. It sticks in all our throats -- we really hate him -- but what are you going...
Most of the Iraqi prisoners are conscripts or enlisted men of low rank, in their 20s. About 5% are low-ranking officers; the highest is an infantry lieutenant colonel. But none are from Saddam's most formidable unit, the 150,000-man Republican Guard. From interrogating these soldiers, usually through volunteer Kuwaiti interpreters, the allies have developed a richly detailed picture of the Iraqi army's condition. Items...
...GULF WAR: Vowing to push Saddam's forces out of Kuwait, George Bush orders the ground war to begin...
Hours after the final deadline passed for Iraq to withdraw, allied forces swept into Kuwait. Finally, Saddam had the battle that he so publicly desired, but that he desperately tried to avoid in the final hours. -- What is left to liberate in Kuwait? -- The interrogation of captured soldiers offers fresh details about Baghdad's military machine. -- Yevgeni Primakov, adviser to President Gorbachev, provides the inside story of Moscow's ill-fated quest for a deal...
...occupied emirate portrayed a country that had sustained much damage and disruption but was far from devastated. That picture, however, may have been tragically altered by the billowing clouds of smoke emanating from Kuwaiti oil wells late last week, part of what President Bush denounced as Saddam's "scorched earth" policy...