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To: KonKilo who wrote (9894)	9/29/2003 8:09:23 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) of 793717

I think we're in a gray area here. He cites the quote to flow smoothly with his narrative, thereby endorsing the sentiment... Meanwhile, Saddam might well squirm, but even without an invasion, he's finished. He is surrounded, foreigners are swarming through his palaces, and as Colin Powell so compellingly showed at the UN, we are watching and we are listening. International will to disarm Iraq will not wane as it did in the 1990s, for the simple reason that George W. Bush keeps challenging the organization to remain relevant by keeping pressure on Saddam. Nations that worry that, as John le Carré puts it, "America has entered one of its periods of historical madness" will not want to jettison the one institution that, absent a competing military power, might constrain US ambition.

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