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To: chomolungma who wrote (69843)	4/17/2003 2:58:11 PM
From: Sun Tzu	of 70976

> Not according to that Al Jazeera article I posted. How can that be? Who will be signing off on it? Who will be authority in Iraq to lift sanctions against? > The fact that this regime no longer exists makes this kind of moot don't you think? Somewhat, but not completely. The intent was to make sure Iraq cannot pose a danger to others. If the weapons are still there, you cannot really say that. What is to stop the proliferation of the said weapons into terrorist hands? Or for the next regime to attack its neighbors. > Now it appears that the ulterior motives were on the other side. This was always the case, although I am not so sure what you mean by ulterior motives. All countries, including US, act in their own selfish interests. All the excuses for attacking Iraq were just that imo; excuses. The arguments on the other side were more valid IMO, but they too were motivated by self interests. Otherwise they would not have been brought up. I don't see why you are upset about this. This is the balance of the world. When someone takes the attitude of "it's my way or highway", everybody else gangs up on him. The solution is to establish ground rules that everyone is held to. ST

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