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To: greenspirit who wrote (96159)	4/24/2003 11:13:29 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) of 281500

This linkage of multiple issues, plays a similar role as to why Saddam was a uniquely dangerous dictator compared to other world dictators. What made Saddam uniquely dangerous, was the combination of his desire to invade other countries, his willingness to use wmd, and his feeding of terrorism around the globe with the vast oil wealth of Iraq. You and I are clearly reading different sources, Michael. Let me take these items one at a time. His desire to invade other countries: that ended in 91 and he was very weakened since. There was simply no way he was going to invade any other country. Read the piece by Mearsheimer and Waltz that kept getting posted to the thread. Second, his use of wmd. That, again was a past event. Third, the feeding of terrorism around the globe. There is simply no evidence he fed anything but campaigns against Israel. So it's ME regional violence. I'm not going to defend Saddam. No one should. I'm simply arguing that if you look seriously at the reasons this administration invaded Iraq, they had nothing to do with humanitarian ones. Those were spin. It's all about the role of oil in the global economy and displaying our muscular war machine.

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