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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials
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To: skinowski who wrote (67183)12/19/2002 8:38:40 AM
From: michael97123   of 70976
 
Skin,
As always events can change perceptions. It is pretty clear now that the plan is to begin the war on or around 2/1. Even Blix knows the Iraqi document is way incomplete. So we have six weeks to prevent a war that now that it is upon us, no one really wants. My gut now says this situation has been brilliantly orchestrated to give saddam a way out in the end. If that way out leaves him in power the left will not be happy because now it will be Shrub makes cynical deal with iraqi dictator. Sean Penn will go back to iraq to denounce US deals with brutal dictators. Lose/Lose situation.
Best case is that Saddam and his 1000 closest friends and allies get an island somewhere and access to their swiss accounts. Another possibility as war gets closes is that Saddam is overthrown by his own military who then takes power and hopefully begins dealing with the exiles much the same way as in Afganistan. Then the left yells about a US puppet state which zonder already called(in so many words) my Marshall Plan for mideast suggestion. Its hard to be an American President, harder than at any other time since the civil war perhaps. Study bush's face some times, he is aging in office as fast as LBJ. How would any of the critics handle this job or even me you and fred? Its easy to post on SI. Mike
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