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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (81311)	3/11/2003 4:19:44 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) of 281500

I do recommend listening to at least a half hour or so of Glaspie's testimony. She appears to have good insight into Saddam's mindset. c-span.org cspanrm.fplive.net:554/ramgen/cspan/jdrive/iraq032191_glaspie.rm?mode=compact She testifies that he is surrounded by sycophants who tell him only what he wants to hear. Many have related how he was living in a dream world prior to Gulf War I, e.g., this recent op-ed by Alcibíades Hidalgo, Cuban first vice minister of foreign relations and permanent representative to the United Nations. washingtonpost.com His grip on reality isn't likely to be any firmer now, and probably is as tenuous as Michael Jackson's. Oh, for an Iraqi version of Beria wielding warfarin, a blood thinner, which appears to have been the end of Stalin. Jacob Snyder could prescribe it, but who would administer it?

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