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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: TigerPaw who wrote (366322)3/4/2003 9:47:31 PM
From: Rock_nj   of 769670
 
Another purpose of keeping Saddam in power was that he could be used as a bogeyman to justify high defense spending for the forseeable future. Especially, with the Cold War coming to the close, I'm sure the military/industrial complex was phreaking out over the prospect of seeing their budgets trimed as our arch enemy the Soviet Union was disappearing. Saddam was a convient foe.
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