<<<I think what Pollack would have had in mind was something a bit different than going up to the brink and then pausing something like the following would have been consistent with his analysis:>>>
Very logical but perhaps a bit optimistic.
What would happen in that extra year?
1. Saddam would have accumulated another $1 bil from illegal oil sales to Syria.
2. He would have built 5 more Palaces from that money plus the food for oil campaign and bought more up to date armament ( he was averaging 5 PPY)
3. Another year of deprivation, torture, killings, bad water and inadequate power for the Iraqis.
4. Another year of expence and frustration for Inspectors as he leads them around by the nose to various no longer used production sites to demonstrate that he was out of the WMD business as he built more mobile production labs in secret. And still the unanswered question - what happened to the previous production ?
5. He could have produced 100 more OBL wanabees in the Al Qaeda training camps and been a haven for others.
6. The US Press would have concentrated on the hidious inward looking aspects of the crooked CEO's, stock market losses, worries about medical costs, election funding, job losses, and general depression that would have continued to tank the markets And FL might be out of a job.
7. Terrorists and terrorist supporters could have said, would have said about GWB, yeah there is some kind of a cowboy, all tough talk and no action. And he will hopefully be out of a job in November and will not get involved in Military action during elections. Americans as we learned from the movies are pansies- eating junk food, watching sex movies,- so lets go ahead with procuring nuclear armaments- they wont do anything except talk.
Sig@otherscenarios.com |
