Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...YORK: UNSCOM chief Richard Butler could be forgiven for feeling a little like Ken Starr: even though his investigation is not complete, it could still be buried in the shifting sands of politics. U.N. inspectors today finished searching Saddam Hussein?s disputed presidential sites, and came up empty-handed. ?They weren?t expecting to find anything; they were simply establishing their right to search those sites,? says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. ?Things are on track right now, although UNSCOM staff members privately expect further confrontation with Iraq some time down the road, because the Iraqis are still playing...
BAGHDAD: He?s a great kidder, that Uday Hussein. Saddam?s son may be better known, according to TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell, as ?a madman, extremely violent and out of control,? but today he took his countrymen for April fools...
...your article "Parade of the Dead Babies" [WORLD, March 2]: We ride in with our white hats to save the world from Saddam and his "weapons of mass destruction," yet it is precisely our weapons and policies that have led to the suffering, destruction and death of millions of innocent Iraqi civilians. When did Iraqi lives become so expendable? Aren't we the country that touts the value of human life? Are we to believe that Iraq is the only country in the world developing chemical and biological weapons? Just what is our real agenda? DOUG WAGNER Beaverton...
...anyone considered the possibility that Saddam is luring our armed forces to regions within the scope of his short-range missiles? I believe that Saddam, as a twisted dictator, would not hesitate to use his biochemical weapons on nearby troops. Certainly he is doing a fine job of playing cat and mouse to draw within deadly reach as many of our troops as possible. JENNIFER SMITH Livingston, Mont...
...plan will allow Iraq to increase its sales to roughly half the amount of oil it was pumping before the Gulf War. As it turns out, France and Russia pushed the program much harder than Iraq, which initially feared this option would reduce pressure to get sanctions lifted. But SADDAM HUSSEIN realized that the more cash he could earn to buy food to keep Iraqis from starving, the more hard currency reserves, into which he had been dipping, could be used for the Republican Guards. French and Russian companies are betting that pumping oil now will give them a permanent...