Word: saddams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...defied the will of the international community for months, yet now the U.S. is going it almost alone. And, of course, the greatest irony of all: after the most decisive military campaign of the Clinton presidency, the fate of the American President appeared more precarious than that of Saddam Hussein...
...Joint Chiefs of Staff. In the call, discussion focused first on the report that would be delivered later that day by Richard Butler, chairman of UNSCOM, the U.N. special commission that oversees weapons inspections in Iraq. In scathing terms, Butler would say that the "full cooperation" that Saddam had promised on Nov. 15, in the face of an earlier military buildup against him, had turned out to be a sham...
Early Wednesday Clinton called Speaker-elect Livingston to discuss Iraq for the second time that week, this time to say an attack had to begin immediately in order to take Saddam by surprise and avoid starting the campaign during Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar. In turn, Livingston promised the President he would delay the impeachment vote...
...that time, however, the air strikes were under way. In his televised address to the nation Wednesday night, during which the bags under his eyes hung like snow melting down rooftops, the President argued that a delay of even a couple of days would have given Saddam time to prepare for the attack by dispersing his forces and hiding his weapons. As expected, Republicans were suspicious that the entire campaign was an attempt by Clinton to postpone the impeachment vote and buy time to find some way out, perhaps even by dragging the process into the next Congress, where there...
...Saleh's (and presumably Saddam Hussein's) objection comes out of a fear that oil for food means sanctions will continue indefinitely, since it allows the West to make the dubious argument that sanctions actually benefit the Iraqi people by ensuring that they get at least some food. So while Saleh is backing down for now, expect this to be revisited again in the coming months before the program comes up for renewal...