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Article: Stalking Saddam. (Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- February 23, 1998
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RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA--Operation Desert Thunder, the buildup of U.S. forces here in the Persian Gulf, is nearly complete. The only question is what their mission should be: to eliminate Saddam Hussein's chemical and biological weapons? Or to eliminate Saddam Hussein himself?
While the Clinton administration's mantra is "no more pinpricks," it has set the military on a cautious course with limited aims: retarding Iraq's development of weapons of mass destruction and reducing Saddam Hussein's ability to threaten his neighbors. Republicans in Congress question whether that is enough. "Incremental timidity which only punishes Saddam and leaves him in a place to build ...