Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bombing Iraq, with Boris Yeltsin suggesting such action could lead to a Third World War. This time, there is no clear objective behind a military attack; even President Clinton has acknowledged that after a military offensive, Iraq would maintain some chemical weapons and the capacity to produce more, and Saddam Hussein would almost surely remain in power. And this time, popular opinion on an attack is divided, as was made clear in an Ohio "town meeting" last week where top defense officials were unexpectedly shouted down by ardent protesters...
Only a serious long-term strategy for bringing democracy to Iraq and for ousting Saddam Hussein from power can serve the interests of America, of the Iraqi people and of world peace. If and when the current crisis subsides, it is to this dilemma we should turn our attention...
Compromise and discussion are futile. Saddam Hussein is a tyrant, not a democratically elected leader who has been building up a supply of weapons with the intent to use them...
Inside Operation Desert Storm, the military juggernaut that freed Kuwait in 1991, was a small, secret operation all its own: an effort to kill Saddam Hussein. Of the 40,000 U.S. air attacks during the Gulf War, about 40 were aimed at the Iraqi leader's headquarters, residences, command bunkers and buildings he was expected to visit. Pentagon lawyers had ruled that Saddam was a legal target because he was considered a wartime military commander. But in the end it didn't matter. Saddam and his entire family came through without a scratch...
...Apparently our two hypothetical terrorists expected any attack they made to be blamed on the Iraqis. Please, Saddam. We'll do anything you say. Just leave us Las Vegas...