Word: tyrants
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...speech to soldiers and their families at Fort Stewart in / Georgia, Bush stated the thought more nakedly: "When we win, and we will, we will have taught a dangerous dictator, and any tyrant tempted to follow in his footsteps, that the U.S. has a new credibility and that what we say goes...
...Take a Tyrant At his Word...
...Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to be an act of war. Kuwait was exceeding its OPEC limits at the time. But a senior State Department official dismissed the statement as "typical exaggerated rhetoric." Says the same official today: "I guess there is a lesson here: Take a tyrant at his word...
...torturing his political enemies, of gassing his own people, or using hostages as human shields. His wartime conduct was equally unacceptable: widespread lynchings of Kuwaitis, tons of oil dumped and ignited, civilians reportedly clustered around military targets, numerous Scuds launched toward a non-combatant nation, Israel. Such a vicious tyrant could not be permitted to emerge from his confrontation with the West as a hero to the Arab world...
...Woodrow Wilson, are loath to confess that they do not act for reasons of morality alone. We would rather not admit that one reason to resist Saddam Hussein is that we are not prepared to see the economies of the West wrecked by the ambition of a foreign tyrant. Indeed, some American critics think it a fatal moral criticism of the gulf war to say that if Kuwait had only sand and no oil, the U.S. would not have rushed to its defense...