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To: Elsewhere who wrote (97526)5/6/2003 8:16:55 PM
From: frankw1900  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
In The Threatening Storm, you make the point that Saddam was not close to making a nuclear weapon. Was the war rushed?

[Pollack] What we knew about Saddam's thinking was that he wanted nuclear weapons because he believed that once he had nuclear weapons, he would be able to re-embark on his program of expansion and dominance in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf region. I always felt that the threat from Iraq was not an imminent one--this was an area where I parted company from the Bush administration, because I didn't believe that Saddam had nuclear weapons, and I believed that he was still years away from acquiring nuclear weapons.


It's not talked about much but did not the Iraq threat become imminent once N Korea announced it's plutonium manufacturing intention?

Korea already sells weapons into the ME. Who would be the first customer for a bomb?

There had to be a lot of deciding factors for invasion sooner rather than later, but I can't believe this wasn't one of them.
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