Word: saddams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ENDLESS WAR AGAINST SADDAM...
...regular sorties carried out by the U.S. and its allies in the ongoing attempt to oust Iraq's Saddam Hussein [WORLD, Nov. 8] only contribute to the miseries of the Iraqi populace. If the U.S. has not been able to replace Fidel Castro in Cuba, why should it think it can overthrow a leader like Saddam, who is liked by the people? No amount of bombing or propaganda will undo things so easily. I want the bombings to stop and all sanctions to be lifted. Allow the Iraqis to lead peaceful lives. Americans should ask Congress to stop funding unnecessary...
...areas complain that the state-run oil company refuses to give them any fuel at all. And Belgrade is saying it has solved the heating problem in the rest of the country by making deals with Slovakia and Iraq, exchanging Serbian copper, food and medicine for Slovak electricity and Saddam Hussein's oil. In the end, it seems that the people most likely to shiver this winter are the ones who voted against Milosevic...
...Saddam's neighbors, however, have concluded that Washington is not serious about getting rid of him, so they have begun rearranging their foreign policies to live with him and are pressing for the economic sanctions to be lifted. Most Arab governments refuse to deal with Chalabi or allow him to use their countries as staging areas for any guerrilla force he might assemble. Jordan has convicted him in absentia on banking-fraud charges. (Chalabi says the allegations were trumped up.) Though the loyalty of many divisions in Saddam's 400,000-man armed forces is questionable, U.S. intelligence believes that...
...little cockiness, having just returned from a tour in which they played on hallowed cricket grounds in London. They dropped in on peace talks in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and presented a cricket bat to Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams. ("It's a little like presenting a menorah to Saddam Hussein," Haber says.) And they took tea at Windsor Castle with Prince Edward. In a landmark moment of cultural exchange, they performed The Hip-Hop Cricket Rap for His Royal Highness. Says Hayes: "I don't think they'd ever seen or heard the likes...