TITLE

No Strikes

AUTHOR(S)
Walzer, Michael
PUB. DATE
September 2002
SOURCE
New Republic;9/30/2002, Vol. 227 Issue 14, p19
SOURCE TYPE
Periodical
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Analyzes the plan of U.S. President George W. Bush to wage war against Iraq and oust Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Diplomatic efforts of the Bush administration to win support from the United Nations of its plan; Discussion on the issue of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program; Possible impact of the Bush administration's threat to attack Iraq; Analysis of the threat Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein poses to the U.S. and the to the international peace; Aftermath of the weapons inspections in Iraq.
ACCESSION #
7373203

Tags: INTERNATIONAL relations;  NUCLEAR arms control;  WEAPONS of mass destruction;  HUSSEIN, Saddam, 1937-2006;  WEAPONS inspections;  UNITED Nations;  BUSH, George W. (George Walker), 1946-;  PRESIDENTS -- United States;  UNITED States -- Foreign relations -- 2001-2009;  IRAQ -- Foreign relations -- 1991-

 

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