Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after question still lacks a good answer. Missiles or paper promise, Saddam Hussein will bob back up, ready to start the game all over again...
Russia, France and China were emboldened by Saddam's letter to pressure the U.S. to put the safety pin back in the Tomahawks. "They are arguing to take yes for an answer, and we're saying it's a fraudulent yes," said an American official. While the Pentagon told its senior officers to show up "bright and early" Sunday morning to prepare for an air assault, Clinton, Albright and Berger were telephoning leaders around the world to bring them back on board. "We'll be prepared to act alone if we have to," said a White House aide...
Attack or no attack, Saddam has succeeded again in one thing he wanted: to call attention to Iraq's complaint that eight years of inspections and sanctions are enough. He is not alone in the belief that Iraq's innocent civilians have suffered too much, too long. While the U.S. can brush aside his letter's nine points for now as so much Swiss cheese, the issues they raise lie at the heart of the tug-of-war. Iraq says it has largely complied with disarmament demands; the U.S. insists that Saddam is hiding stockpiles of germ weapons...
...Clinton foreign policy team, as he has been so often this year. It was Berger who sprinted back and forth between his West Wing desk to the Oval Office and even to the President's putting green, working to muster all the pieces for a strong strike against Saddam. And it was Berger who went on TV to explain that Saddam's capitulation wasn't good enough. His co-workers call him a maestro--the man who puts together foreign policy and helps the President choose actions...
However, at week's end Berger was taking a few shots from detractors. In particular, the notion that Saddam is still playing a game of "cheat and retreat" has reinforced criticism that Clinton has no coherent strategy for containing Saddam. "The problem with the Administration's foreign policy," says Richard Haass of the Brookings Institution, "is there's not enough...