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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (69922)1/29/2003 2:59:26 PM
From: carranza2  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
The speech last night gave only veiled reasons, nothing very specific.

Bush fears that Saddam will give away WMDs to a terrorist group that will use them against us. This is admittedly thin gruel given the fact that Saddam by all accounts is not crazy about allowing others to use his toys in a manner that might not further his interests, though he has enough of them so he can share them without diminishing his toybox to any appreciable degree.

Bush did not, inexplicably, specifically discuss the possibility of a nuke-armed Saddam controlling the flow of ME oil, which I think is the main reason we are going in nor did he discuss the enormous threat a WMD-armed Saddam presents to Israel, another unspoken reason for going in.
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