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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (117591)	10/24/2003 1:31:03 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) of 281500

Yes, we were intervening in Iraq in a big way. We pursued a policy of containment for 12 years and the results were terrible for the Iraqi people and bad for US foreign policy. The US got all the heavy lifting of a failing containment policy, while everybody else broke the rules and made money, Saddam got the be the Great Arab Survivor & Defier of the US, and the Iraqis starved. On top of that, the containment policy was breaking apart - remember Powell's push for "smart sanctions" in the UN? and what came of it? France stood to make billions through its TotalFinaElf contracts if sanctions were lifted. Give the great "cooperation" we were getting from our "allies" on containment, it's really hard to see what other options would have been better.

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