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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (40434)8/28/2002 12:53:12 AM
From: SirRealist  Read Replies (4) of 281500
 
>>What if Saddam was cleverer than that, and the trail was not clear? If OBL had had a dirty bomb on 9/11, how long would it have taken us to trace it? Might the political situation prevent us from moving against Saddam, just as it prevents us now from moving against the Saudi princes who funded Al Qaeda? The thing is far from sure. But the benefits Saddam would reap in the Arab world from the mere perception, those are sure. <<

I suspect Stalin had a nuclear bomb. He was far more threatening to our security and world security, and murdered more inside and outside his country than Hussein ever will, and we were -even the US public- quite willing to nuke him if he tried to use his bomb. Cheney's arguing that the US public can't ever be trusted to defend itself. It's not a very convincing argument.
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