Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Biological agents could be a different problem. Iraq is believed to possess some of them, including typhoid, cholera and botulin toxin. In open air, most of those die within hours. So does anthrax, an infectious, spore-forming bacterium that Saddam is also believed to possess. But if spores of anthrax penetrate the ground, they can survive in a dormant state for decades, waiting for new victims...
...consolation for environmentalists is that this may be the first war in which the ecological consequences of battle have been a focus of world attention even as the fighting takes place. Yet that very awareness multiplies the sense of horror and demoralization caused by Saddam's callous acts of environmental terrorism. In his quixotic madness, the Iraqi strongman seems intent on waging what he calls "the mother of all battles" against the mother of us all -- the earth itself...
...tank, the cost of the conflict could add up more swiftly than any other war in American history. By one estimate, the price tag would be as much as $28 billion for a one-month campaign and $86 billion for a six-month siege of Saddam Hussein's forces. Experts say the high-tech combat already costs $500 million a day and may reach $1 billion if heavy fighting breaks out on the ground. At the height of the Vietnam War, which employed less sophisticated weaponry, U.S. military expenditures came to about $230 million a day in 1991 dollars...
Here, finally, was a Saddam surprise, an Iraqi action that U.S. contingency planners had minimized before the war began. When Iraqi troops began pumping oil into the Persian Gulf from Sea Island, an offshore loading facility near Al-Ahmadi last week, Baghdad's motives were instantly clear to Saudi Arabia and to the Kuwaiti government-in-exile. In Taif, Saudi Arabia, where the Kuwaiti administration has settled for the time being, experts plotted the prevailing currents in the gulf and concluded that in only a few days the giant spill could reach Jubail, Saudi Arabia. That is where a mammoth...
That was before the alliance's strategy became clear, however. "Driving Saddam from our country is only good if we also make sure he can never come back," a Kuwaiti minister said last week. "If the Iraqis in Kuwait had been hit without mercy early on, it might have forced a pullback, and Saddam could have kept his war abilities intact. It's slower this way -- going after his capacities in Iraq before turning to the occupation forces -- but it is the best way to meet the ultimate objective...