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...dictator gets out of Kuwait with no compromise of any kind whatsoever," he said. To ensure that Saddam perceives the military alliance ranged against him as "credible," and to achieve an offensive capability beyond the "defend and deter" mission described as Washington's objective to date, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney signaled that as many as 100,000 additional U.S. troops would soon join the 210,000 already in the gulf. At the same time, CIA Director William Webster said the Middle East would never be secure until Saddam was removed from power or "disassociated" from his weapons of mass destruction...
...Cheney-Webster message was unmistakable: there may be no way out short of war. But a growing ambivalence pervades the enterprise nonetheless. The "wait a minute" second thoughts echoing on Capitol Hill -- a skittishness in marked contrast to the "let's get him" talk of several weeks ago -- reflects an increasing reluctance among the American public to start shooting...
House Republicans were leak targets too. A 1986 letter from 16 of them, including Dick Cheney and Newt Gingrich, asked Bank Board ex-chairman Edwin Gray for "internal memoranda" about the board's decisions on certain S&L matters that could have helped Keating. Gray refused the request and charged last week that the Congressmen had been "duped and used" by the indicted financier...
...echoes of that old show in both the idiom and the cast of the drama dominating the airwaves today. Saddam Hussein made himself Public Enemy No. 1 with his armed robbery of an entire country. As the U.S. rushed to battle stations, an aide to Defense Secretary Dick Cheney exulted, "We're coming on like gangbusters!" And as it turns out, the commander of Operation Desert Shield, General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, is the son of the cop turned radio star...
...adversaries take Saddam at his word. The Iraqi's remarks, said U.S. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, are the "first evidence that in fact he's really beginning to feel the pain" of the sanctions. As his discomfort grows, said Cheney, Saddam may "use his military force to try to break the stranglehold...