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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (170505)6/4/2003 11:08:27 AM
From: Alighieri  Read Replies (1) of 1582528
 
Saddam refused to allow the inspectors to do their job and he created conditions where they had to leave the country.

The CIA was also using the inspectors as spies...

Saddam may have been contained but possibly not forever and also the effort to contain him caused more death and suffering for the Iraqis then the war did.

You are parroting the party line because the main case is now been shown to be a deception. Iraq has been the site of two wars, one of which we supported and made sure neither side won. Today, we see that Iraq is a very complex place, where western standards of governance are very unlikely to work. I know you have read about the strife and demonstrations against the US there. The honeymoon is over. The reality of Iraq is now before us as it is in Afghanistan.

The UN wanted more time but with Saddam in charge of the country more time never would have been enough.

Enough for what? After 2 months of free reign, and with all the conditions the US claimed it wanted the UN to have to avoid war back then, now at our disposal (we can go anywhere, talk to anybody, high ranking officials in custody), we still can't find squat and the president has to resort to again embellish two delapidated trucks with vats and a compressor on them as "proof". We've been cynically deceived. This ain't no blow job either.

Al
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