Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After the smooth-talking Tariq Aziz threatened to shoot down U-2s Monday, Clinton opted for restraint by waiting to see if the U.N. Security Council would condemn Saddam. They did. Iraq responded with an angry expulsion of American inspectors that only brought the U.S. and U.N. closer together...
...Saddam, of course, saw it as a symbolic victory ? and he?ll feel even better if Clinton decided to bomb him now. Short of standing in the streets of Baghdad screaming ?come and get me? at passing U-2s, he couldn?t be signaling it any clearer. The reason? It will fracture the international alliance and build sympathy for Iraq in the Arab world. Nothing would give Saddam greater pleasure than to play the butterfly broken on America?s wheel...
...That the Americans were allowed to be divided off from the rest of UNSCOM at the end was at least a symbolic victory for Saddam, and the kind of "illegal separation of nationalities" that chief inspector Richard Butler had railed against. Not to worry. "We have a job to do, and we hope to return," said inspector Alan Dacey. MacArthur couldn't have said it better...
AMMAN, Jordan: In one of the more humiliating retreats since MacArthur left the Philippines, U.S. arms inspectors arrived here Friday after a grueling night drive across the Iraqi desert ? having been forced out of Baghdad by Saddam Hussein a day ahead of their international colleagues...
Couch Potato took the time to call three of Hollywood's most qualified action directors, all pals of his, and ask them the question of the week: What to do about Saddam? The panel...