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To: Bill Harmond who wrote (146968)	9/5/2002 12:11:00 PM
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"What does your stort story have to do with Iraq?" We do what we believe to be in our best interests. We are not primarily motivated by principle. Our motivation to invade Iraq has nothing to do with the fact that Sadaam used "weapons of mass destruction" against "his own people" (and the Iranians before that). On the contrary, we found it useful to assist Saddam while he gassed the Iranians and did not feel any need to do anything when Saddam decided to slaughter the Kurds for heeding our call to "rebel" against Saddam -- we set them up and then left them to die. Our motivation to invade Iraq has nothing to do with "vicious dictators" -- we work with vicious dictators when it suits us -- and of course Saddam is an old ally of ours. Our motivation has nothing to do with spreading democracy -- you will not find a democracy in Kuwait in the wake of our "liberating" them. We are motivated by our national interests, and it is not in our national interests to have a hostile regime with nuclear capability in the middle of the oil patch. That is the real case for invading Iraq. The rest is window-dressing.

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