Bush discussed resolutions that have been passed in the United Nations Security Council in an effort to conduct weapons inspections to oversee the disarmament of Iraq. He said that Iraq has not been cooperative
Kurdish leader elected president of Iraq: Saddam Hussein, other members of former regime allowed to watch announcement on TV
Go back to 2003, the year a younger Ahmed Sharaa set off for Iraq. The Americans were about to invade and overthrow Saddam Hussein. The country was set for a long and brutal insurgency, with the Americans caught haplessly in the middle. Sharaa fought the Americans - a young,...
The Syrian leader is a one-time insurgent leader who spent years imprisoned by US forces after being captured in Iraq. He was named president of Syria in January, a month after an offensive by insurgent groups led by his Hayat Tahrir al Sham, or HTS, stormed Dama...
“For 10 years, we created Saddam Hussein with your taxpayer money,” Perot said in a two-hour appearance on NBC’s “Today” show. As late as May of 1990--less than three months before Iraq seized Kuwait--”our President was sending delegations over to burp and diaper and pamper Sadda...
This is by the way very similar to what Saddam Hussein and Iraq did in 1990 when they invaded Kuwait. Saddam Hussein claimed that Kuwait was part of Iraq and invaded it, making Kuwait, part of Iraq, and then the United States working, by the way, with much of the international community...
"The world is a safer place thanks to Desert Storm and to the strength of the international community's response to Saddam Hussein's aggression," he said. Defeats at home Despite his war against Iraq, Bush was never able to gain his footing in the domestic arena, and his domestic problems...
We are now acting because the risks of inaction would be far greater. In one year, or five years, the power of Iraq to inflict harm on all free nations would be multiplied many times over. With these capabilities, Saddam Hussein and his terrorist allies could choose the moment of deadly ...
Besides waiting for a trial of Saddam, the world wants to see 15 the US and Britain can find the 16 weapons they gave as the 17 for the war in Iraq.Asked if Saddam's capture(捕获)could 18 a breakthrough(突破)in the hunt for the weapons of mass destruction, British Prime Minister ...
Six weeks ago, Saddam Hussein announced that he would no longer cooperate with the United Nations weapons inspectors called UNSCOM. They are highly professional experts from dozens of countries. Their job is to oversee the elimination of Iraq's capability to retain, create and use weapons of ...