America policy towards Iraq (Was RE: Noam Chomsky on Kosovo)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Mar 30 13:33:16 PST 1999


curtiss_leung at ibi.com wrote:


> Didn't the Busher himself recently write that deposing Saddam Hussein
> wasn't on the agenda -- only getting him out of Kuwait? I thought
> deposing Saddam in favor of one of his military chiefs only became an
> objective under Clinton, and then only recently...

My guess - who knows for sure? - is that Zinni just said aloud what the adminstration and the security establishment really think. How do we know that Clinton wants Saddam out?

Doug



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