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To: NickSE who wrote (281)	3/5/2003 7:06:04 PM
From: NickSE	Read Replies (2) of 504

Time's Up Twelve years of propping up Saddam is long enough by Claudia Rosett opinionjournal.com Critics of America's plan to liberate Iraq are right about one thing: We don't know exactly how this policy will look in practice. But there are a few things we do know. In particular, we know what happens when we depend on the so-called peaceful alternatives of restraining Saddam with "disarmament" and "containment." We know this because we've been trying it for 12 years--and failing. It's what we're doing right now, with another Hans Blix report coming Friday and the U.N. Security Council heading for a vote next week on yet another Iraq resolution--the 18th in a series that by now ought to be issued as a bound set. Just as Neville Chamberlain hoped to contain Hitler with "peace in our time," today's chumps march under the banner of "pressure in our time." High fashion at the U.N. has it that if we just keep nagging Saddam, he will lose all interest in germs, gas and nuclear bombs, and apart from the miseries of 24 million Iraqis still living in fear of having their tongues ripped out, all will forevermore be safe and well. [cont'd...]

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