Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interest rates down; so it would be hard to argue that melancholy was linked to money. But the fin de siecle came at the same time as the "fin" of other things. An odd loss attended winning the cold war, that of a scary enemy (the effort to inflate Saddam Hussein to that stature was seen as nonsense). There was the apparent end of ideology as the two main political parties settled on common and largely commonsensical ground. With all such monumental successes, people may have looked around for failures and things to fix. Toward the end of the year...
COMING TO TERMS WITH SADDAM...
...that Iraq had destroyed all its weapons of mass destruction ? but then turned around and increased the number of sites to which Butler and his team are denied access. Now it's not only "presidential and sovereign sites" that are off limits, but also ministry headquarters, plus anywhere Saddam Hussein has ever lived, worked, or vacationed. Apparently the same restrictions do not apply if you're carrying a camera and a press pass. Perhaps Butler would have more success taking a cover...
BAGHDAD: At least the war of words is becoming more imaginative: Back during the standoff last month, Madeleine Albright called Saddam Hussein a ?congenital liar,? and Tariq Aziz fired back: ?It is she who is the liar.? Now, if nothing else, the two sides are becoming more loquacious: President Clinton called Saddam ?maddeningly stupid? Monday, while Iraqi newspapers retorted Wednesday that Clinton was an ?ugly adolescent? who has turned the White House into ?a nightclub where he plays the music himself on the flute and guitar...
...Iraq?s continued refusal to allow him access to presidential compounds. The Security Council itself hasn?t changed, either ? France, Russia and China are still not willing to sanction any military punishment. All of which keeps the standoff ticking over, and the insults jockeying back and forth. Word to Saddam: Just keep Buddy...