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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: SirRealist who wrote (90529)4/7/2003 12:06:05 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Bush administration officials have scaled back how much they talk about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, preparing for the possibility that it may take weeks or even months to determine whether Saddam Hussein was in fact stockpiling chemical and biological arms -- one of the administration's main justifications for going to war.

The vast majority of people I know or have just talked to have never believed that WMD was a primary reason for this invasion. Most saw it as a mixture of business/oil interests, and a real desire to stabilize the region going forward with the elimination of someone who's been a thorn in the side of that region for all too long.

The invasion has been a global PR disaster for the USA if nothing else, and I don't anticipate the lack of any WMD to worsen anything if no humanitarian or other disaster is the outcome of this. There just aren't likely to be worldwide "No WMD Found" marches once the war ends and a long process of rebuilding is started. The extreme left will chatter away no matter what the outcome is, and are best left on ignore.

We really have a responsibility and the chance to leave things in the Iraq, and the region itself, better than just another 12 years of status quo with Saddam still in power, more pointless weapons inspections by the UN, just like the past 12 years.
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