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Crazy about Hussein
Silverstein, Ken | May 10, 1999 issue

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Since the end of the Persian Gulf War, 1991, the U.S. has used air strikes and sanctions in seeking to overthrow Iraq President Saddam Hussein. The U.S. Administration believes that the combination of sanctions and bombs will ultimately produce sufficient internal discontent that someone in the Iraqi Army, ideally a more malleable military man who will see to the U.S. interests in the gulf, will decide to overthrow Hussein, preferably by execution. The idea is that the U.S.-sponsored uprising will be a means of installing a pro-Western regime in Baghdad.

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SANCTIONS (International law); HUSSEIN, Saddam, 1937-2006; BOMBS; PERSIAN Gulf War, 1991; IRAQ; UNITED States
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