Tanya
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 Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 4:31 pm Post subject: The Four-Day War |
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Who did Saddam Hussein turn to after President Clinton launched Operation Desert Fox? Osama bin Laden.
by Thomas Joscelyn
07/19/2005 9:00:00 AM
"The British and the American people loudly declared their support for their leaders decision to attack Iraq. It is the duty of Muslims to confront, fight, and kill them."
-Osama bin Laden, as quoted in various press accounts, December 26, 1998
"Oh sons of Arabs and the Arab Gulf, rebel against the foreigner . . . Take revenge for your dignity, holy places, security, interests, and exalted values."
-Saddam Hussein, January 5, 1999
THE "LONG SHORT WAR" with Saddam's Iraq, as author Christopher Hitchens has aptly described it, has had many tense moments. Perhaps never more so than in late 1998. Tensions over Saddam's obstruction of weapons inspections had accrued for months; the United States continually threatened military intervention. Earlier in the year a strike was narrowly averted when U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan brokered a last minute peace deal. But the peace was an unquiet one and, finally, after months of playing Saddam's games, President Clinton decided to act."
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http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/850ikvwv.asp |
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