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...mistakes George Bush has made in his otherwise masterly handling of the showdown was to hint in a press conference that Saddam's physical elimination was an objective of U.S. policy. The President's advisers persuaded him to back off. But last week Bush's jaw still tightened and his eyes narrowed when he uttered any sentence that had Saddam's name in it. Like earlier confrontations between Bush's predecessors and Castro or Gaddafi, this one is personal, not just for the President but for much of the U.S. public as well...
What will constitute a victory in the showdown against Iraq? If a year from now, oil-price stability has been achieved and Saddam is either back within his own borders or deposed, the political benefits for Bush will be great. As he said a decade ago, he will have delivered when the chips were down...
Xenophobic passions aside, there was a more practical consideration in the push to establish an Arab peacekeeping force. Moderate Arab leaders, like Mubarak and Jordan's King Hussein, know well that if the showdown in Saudi Arabia begins to look like a conflict that pits the "imperialist" U.S. against a beleaguered Iraq, Arab sympathy will tilt toward Saddam. An Arab proverb instructs that if a Muslim nation invites a foreigner onto its soil to fight, then all other Islamic nations should turn against the renegade nation. Warns a Syrian official: "The Americans should realize that if they hurt Iraq...
...GULF: Showdown in the Middle East Rallying support from around the world, George Bush confronts Saddam Hussein, encircles Iraq and Kuwait, and begins to squeeze...
Dole apparently meant that Bush's nominee could fall victim to a Republican/Democrat showdown. That is certainly a possibility. But if the Souter nomination does come down to abortion, it will be Senate Republicans who will be bathing in blood...