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Article: Disarming Iraq: to the brink and back again ... and again.
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- New Internationalist
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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THE GREAT GAME CONTINUED: Saddam Hussein vs The West. Muscles flexed - then relaxed. Then flexed again. But for the people of Iraq, trying to survive extreme shortages of food and medicine, the sabre-rattling was no game.
The year began with Iraq refusing to allow weapons inspectors to search Saddam Hussein's presidential palaces and the US responding by proposing an intensive bombing campaign against Iraq. Russia opposed military action, but failed to influence the hawks. Meanwhile, the UN and other agencies working in Iraq reported that food and medical shortages had led to over a million deaths, giving greater impetus to the humanitarian call for lifting ...