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To: zonder who wrote (61088)	12/11/2002 2:43:51 PM
From: aladin	Read Replies (1) of 281500

zonder, 'World opinion' - you may be concerned with the opinions of dictatorships, but Bush isn't. You application of moral eqivalency between US or UK actions and those of Iraq or North Korea is nothing if it isn't funny. The reality is that since Saddam is actually a secular leader, the pragmatic thing would have been for rapprochement with Iraq (saying to hell with their people). We could then use Iraq as a base to deal with Islamic radicals in Saudi Arabia and Iran. Ditto with Syria. In other words abandon Egypt and the Saudi's in favor of better strongmen to combat Al Queda and other islamofascists. That would have been a cold-war era style response. What would Europeans say to that? John

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