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To: GST who wrote (110747)	8/10/2003 12:46:52 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) of 281500

The presence of our troops destabilizes the region. As opposed to the "stability" Saddam would have created by conquering first Kuwait, then Saudi Arabia? I'll grant you, Al Qaeda probably would not have been a problem in that case. We would have had much worse problems, like Saddam's hand on 70% of the Mideast oil spigot. Come on GST, you cannot compare policy decisions against some fairy-tale perfect scenario; you have to calculate what would have been likely to happen. Iraq's army, even in shambles, could take over Saudi Arabia in a couple of days. Saudi Arabia's army is a joke. And Saddam's army was not in shambles in 1990.

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