Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...didn't go to war," she asserts. She also refutes the thesis offered in the book that Saddam invaded Kuwait to gain greater access to the Persian Gulf. If that was his motive, she argues, he would have just taken Northern Kuwait. That would have created a different scenario...
...best case scenario, they could have a nuclear bomb in ten years," Mylroie warns...
...first chapter, "Hijack," sets up the scenario for Saddam's invasion and how the U.S. and Kuwait failed to read his signals correctly. The authors report that last spring, Saddam demanded "$30 million in fresh money" from Arab leaders to offset costs accrued during the recently ended Iran-Iraq war. "Go and tell them in Saudi Arabia and in the Gulf that if they don't give it to me, I will know how to take it," he threatened...
...partial-pullout scenario contemplates Saddam retreating to the northern third of Kuwait, an area of few people but some oil. The Rumaila field, whose southern tip reaches into Kuwait, has long been a sore point for Baghdad. Saddam has accused Kuwait of slant drilling -- siphoning oil from the Iraqi portion of the field through equipment located in Kuwait, an allegation the Kuwaitis deny. "Do you want to know what would probably happen if Saddam retreated to that remote part of Kuwait?" asks a White House aide. "The coalition not only wouldn't go to war to drive Iraq...
...developing nuclear arms by enriching uranium ore to bomb-grade levels. "The sense was, 'My God, this guy's a maniac; he'll do anything. Is there any way we haven't thought of he could get the Bomb?' " says an official. The panel came up with only one scenario: Iraq might have enough bomb-grade fuel on hand to fashion a single low-yield atomic weapon in a period of several months to several years. The interagency group stuck with its earlier estimate of five to 10 years for any larger weapons program, primarily because Iraq still lacks...