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To: Clint E. who wrote (19)	9/15/1996 1:17:00 PM
From: The Sage	of 87

Dear Clint E. In response to your question regarding the Kurds in Northern Iraq and Iran. Some questions have no sensible answers. The one that comes closest is that at that time Saddam was "in". We were supplying him with weapons and intelligence. Just because he misstepped was nothing to get excited about. He was "one of our boys" in the Middle East and we needed allies in the ME due to the loss of the Shah of Iran. Other similar questions that have no sensible answers are: Why did we not also protect the Arabs in the marshes south of Basra? Why did we allow the rebellion to falter and be crushed when all we had to say was the that we supported it and tell Saddam to keep his hands off. Instead we thought more about Millie than the thousands who stood up against Saddam -- at the urging of America-- that were brutally crushed. As a friend of mine once said, "War is Hell." But, then at first they thought him mad when he predicted that the American Civil War would be long and bloody. No war makes sense rationally-- only politcally and financially. Now, I would suspect, we are interested in the Kurds to keep up our ratings in the polls. We just have to be careful that it is a "clean war." At least until election day. The Sage

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