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To: Dayuhan who wrote (3310)3/18/2002 2:05:02 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 21057
 
If it got really sticky, we
could destroy all WMD and WMD construction capacity, and bail.

To really find and destroy all of this capability we would probably have to be there awhile. Long enough that the local people and various radical Islamic groups would see it as an occupation. I suppose we could do a decent job without an occupation, if we just got cooperation from the government in Iraq, but the cooperation would have to be real, not Saddam's previous tactic of delaying inspectors while he moved the WMD materials or documents to a new location. To get real support we would probably need a new government. That new government might need support of the US military, and then you get back to an occupation or at least something that will be percieved as such.

Tim
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