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Article: Can Saddam climb down? (Saddam Hussein)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 1990
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OH, MY! How did I get into this? ... Who cares? How do I get out?" Unless Saddam Hussein is contemplating going out in a terrible blaze, taking as many others with him as possible, he is clearly considering his options for climbing down from the perilous perch on which he has placed himself
The odds, of course, are now very much stacked against Saddam, as he should in large part have calculated from the beginning. But, as befits a megalomaniac of such staggering proportions, his miscalculations have been monumental:
-Misinterpreting the Kuwaiti level of discontent with the ruling Al Sabah family: not one dissident would take up Saddam's offers-virtual ...