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To: hmaly who wrote (157190)	1/2/2003 9:31:20 AM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (2) of 1580124

I assume this part is the point of the article; that you feel the war on terrorism would be better served if we went to war against all of the others first and took care of Saddam later. Not quite an objective interpretation. The author is echoing what many have said, including prominent people on the right and the left. Which is that the war on Saddam is but a distracting sidebar whose consequences are far from understood. I myself think further that it is a convenient sideline, aimed at distracting America's attention from more difficult tasks, and particularly aimed at election results, which is why the administration is hell bent on doing it now. Let's face it...defeating Saddam is a relatively safe bet that works very well to woo like minded Americans at an electorally favorable time, certanly safer than to fail at many more difficult tasks, such as capturing AlQueda leaders, destroying the organization worldwide, solving the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, stabilizing Afghanistan, solving the Pakistan/India conflict, putting the economy on better footing, reducing budget deficits, and a pletora of other domestic issues. Al

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