Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MacArthur had to wait years to fulfill his promise to ?return?; for Scott Ritter the wait was only two months. The former Marine captain expelled by Saddam Hussein in January arrived back in Baghdad today to lead his UNSCOM inspection team, marking the first major test of Kofi Annan?s agreement...
...expelled Ritter not simply because he was American, but because he headed up UNSCOM?s attempts to expose Iraq?s concealment and deception, explains Dowell. ?If the Iraqis let him back in to continue his work, it?s a show of good faith on their part.? Of course, if Saddam decides once again to block Ritter?s efforts, the crisis will rewind to the (by now rather confusing) brink...
...YORK: The Security Council formally promised "severest consequences" for Iraq if it breaks its deal with Kofi Annan. But Saddam Hussein can take comfort in the fact that the U.N. is no closer to deciding exactly what those consequences might...
Sounds awfully like 1992 all over again. But with support for a military strike almost undetectable either at home or abroad, those U.N. handcuffs shouldn't chafe President Clinton overmuch. And when those U.S. warships in the Gulf recede and Saddam gets up to his old tricks, the council may wish it had left Clinton something to bluff with...
...Kofi Annan?s deal rescued the U.S. from a difficult situation, Dowell believes. ?He won us some breathing space in which to reassess what we want to do.? With even the policy of "containment" of Saddam via sanctions being increasingly called into question, the State Department's Iraq wonks face some heavy lifting in the weeks ahead...