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WASHINGTON (AP) — President
Clinton’s decision to unleash a volley of
missiles against key military targets in
Iraq drew the support Tuesday of Texas
Republicans and Democrats alike on
Capitol Hill.
But even as they approved of the attacks
against Iraqi air-defense installations, the
Texans said they would be loath to see full-
scale U.S. military involvement in the
region marred by Kurdish infighting.
“The Kurds are divided and I do not
want us to unwittingly insert ourselves into
a civil conflict or a conflict between Iran
and Iraq,” said Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison,
R-Texas, a member of the Senate Armed
Services Committee.
An outspoken critic of the administra
tion’s decision last year to deploy troops to
Bosnia, Hutchison expressed support for
Clinton’s latest military action.
But in an interview, she said she would
oppose any broadening of the U.S. mis
sion. “I think it’s very important we keep
our commitments but not insert ourselves
into this conflict,” she said.
In a speech on the Senate floor, Sen.
Phil Gramm declared his support for the
administration action, but also cau
tioned that further U.S. involvement
must be limited.
“We do not have a dog in that fight,”
said Gramm, R-Texas. “If this becomes a
conflict between Iran and Iraq, I think the
president would be poorly advised in
becoming involved in that conflict and I
would not and could not support such an
involvement.”
Hussein orders troops
to down U.S. aircraft
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — A defi
ant Saddam Hussein vowed
Tuesday to respond to U.S. missile
strikes, ordering his troops to
shoot down foreign aircraft and
ignore the no-fly zones designed
to keep his military in check.
Kurds in the north celebrated
the attack launched by President
Clinton, but said Saddam’s forces
were still pressing their offensive
against Kurdish rebels.
Two American warships and
a pair of B-52 bombers fired 27
cruise missiles at military tar
gets in southern Iraq, killing five
people, according to Iraqi and
U.S. officials.
The attack set off air raid
sirens in Baghdad and prompt
ed Saddam to announce he
would no longer honor the two
no-fly zones that bar his war
planes from the skies of north
ern and southern Iraq.
“From now on, pay no atten
tion to damned imaginary no-fly
zones,” Saddam told his armed
forces. “Depend only on God, and
hit hard and professionally at any
flying target that belongs to the
allied aggressors that penetrates
the airspace of your beloved and
glorious homeland.”
“Fight, resist these aggressors
and teach them a new, unforget
table lesson about values that their
empty souls lack.”
During and since the 1990-91
Persian Gulf War, Saddam has
“From now on,
pay no attention
to damned imagi
nary no-fly zones/
Saddam Hussein
Iraqi president
responded to punishing action
by the West with dramatic
threats of retaliation that were
rarely carried out.
Clinton launched the strike
Tuesday in response to Saddam’s
weekend assault on Kurdish rebels
in Irbil, the main city in the Kurdish
save haven in northern Iraq.
Associated Press correspon
dent Yalman Onaran reported
from Irbil Tuesday that the city
was calm, but the boom of
heavy artillery could be heard to
the south.
aqi mission puts Clinton in delicate position
Washington (AP) — Saddam Hussein
a big factor at the start of the last presi-
|Jial campaign, all but forgotten in the
By provoking a military showdown with
ident Clinton just nine weeks before
■lion Day, the Iraqi leader might have a
Ie lasting impact this time.
1 tie bipartisan praise for Clinton’s overnight
| ;e missile strikes against Iraqi military tar-
underscored the political opportunity for
president, who displayed a decisiveness
■ iblicans frequently assert is missing from
lidministration's foreign policy,
lit 15 or 20 points ahead in the polls, the
lident doesn’t need this kind of risky chal
lenge,” said Connecticut Democratic Sen.
Joseph Lieberman. "He’s shown some guts.”
But any prolonged confrontation with Iraq
carries huge political risks, the most obvious
being the potential for U.S. casualties should
Saddam not heed Clinton’s warnings and addi
tional strikes be ordered.
The lukewarm support voiced by Western
allies gave Republicans an opening to assert
that Clinton has squandered the internation
al prestige built by Ronald Reagan and
George Bush, to the point where Saddam had
no reservations about ignoring Clinton’s
warnings.
That latter point is one Republican chal
lenger Bob Dole has repeatedly stressed in
his campaign against Clinton. "Saddam
Hussein is testing American leadership,” he
said Sunday. On Monday, he went on to say
Clinton had demonstrated “weak leadership”
in dealing with Iraq.
But after the overnight missile strikes,
Dole awoke Tuesday facing a delicate politi
cal dilemma: How to support the U.S. posi
tion in an international crisis while raising
questions about Clinton’s leadership. “In
matters like this, all of us think not as
Republicans or Democrats, but as
Americans,” Dole said in a speech to the
American Legion.
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