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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: GST who wrote (113017)8/27/2003 1:20:16 PM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Hi GST; Re: "Iraq was systematically disarmed by UN weapons inspectors."

I don't think it's that simple. I think that Iraq was largely forced to destroy its WMD programs by Bush's threat to attack, but there was another factor and that was the attraction of getting sanctions lifted.

Bush's big error (under the supposition that it was not his intent to invade Iraq no matter the legal, ethical, moral, material and human costs) was in not realizing how effective his policy of brinksmanship had been.

-- Carl
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