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To: JDN who wrote (51382)9/5/2002 8:40:16 AM
From: Steve Lee  Read Replies (1) of 64865
 
I will pass your thanks on to Tony next time we chat.

I think the USA would get a lot more support for it's war on terror if it concentrated on the war on terror.

Saddam needs to go no doubt but Bush is giving the wrong message. Or at least that is the impression I get from what is reported.

If Bush made it more clear that he is against Saddam's regime rather than Iraq as a country he would get more international support.

If Bush made it clear that he wanted to depose Saddam because he is an evil murderer and torturer, rather than saying he has weapons of mass destruction, then he would get support.

Past performance is a good guide of future results. The world looks at last time two times US was involved with Iraq and don't like what we see.

First time US supported Iraq in using chemical weapons against Iran. Without chemical weapons, Saddam could not have stopped Iran from being victorious. An Iranian victory was seen by the US as a worse outcome than the use of chemical weapons.

Second time, US (and others) waged war on Iraq, not Saddam. USAF carpet bombed a 6 figure quantity of innocent people who were not supporters of Saddam and in the process helped Saddam to tighten his stronghold over the country. All in the name of liberating another dictator-run country that was stealing Iraq's oil and provoking Iraq by making border incursions in the first place. Oh yes, and supposedly to protect a "threatened ally" that since became the source of 15 people who hijacked planes last year.

Sanctions now hurt the Iraqi people, they don't hurt Saddam. In fact they help him by getting sympathy.

Third time, maybe US will get it right, but you can't blame the rest of the world for being concerned.

If the US invades Iraq with the aim of killing/capturing Saddam, they have a very problem. Either Iraq has weapons of mass destruction or it doesn't. If it does, then Saddam will attempt to use them. He has only ever used them in the past when his life was at stake. He didn't even use them when US etc fought him last time.

If he doesn't have them, then Bush is going to look very stupid and will have to answer for all the lives shed in the name of faulty reasoning after being warned off by the rest of the world.
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