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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (117591)	10/25/2003 1:53:11 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Now if we had changed the requirements, all we had to do was to open it to debate and come up with different set of intervening scheme. No offence, but you just get it... Did you pay ANY attention to how France and Russia were attempting to prop up Saddam, undermining that "intervening scheme" you seem to believe was possible? Did you pay any attention to the multi-hundred billion oil deals that Saddam was holding out to France and Russia? Did you pay attention when France attempted to declare Iraq in compliance with UNSC binding resolutions and recommended lifting sanctions? Look Sun Tzu... Iraq was a vital element in carrying out a strategy aimed at undermining the ability of Islamic Militants to threaten the stability of local regimes. And most of all, it eliminated the presence of US troops in Saudi Arabia, one of the primary gripes that Bin Laden held against the US and transferred the battlefront of militancy to Iraq... Now we'll see if the Saudis are serious about cracking down on their militant elements. You seem so disinclined to use massive military force Sun Tzu, even when we had 12 years of limited use through our UNAUTHORIZED containment of Iraq (no UN authority to do so). But it obviously was not accomplishing the job, was it? And post-9/11 there was more to be gained by removing Saddam and restoring economic and political stability to the region, than any risk that might result from removing him from power. And now, it's just amazing.. the French, who were all over the place trying to trade with Saddam's Iraq, want nothing to do with rebuilding the country now... And what's even more amazing is that all of these nations went to Madrid effectively to say we could give a sh*t less about the Iraqi people who they claimed they wanted to help throughout the sanctions period. And I don't think the Iraqis are going to forget that anytime in the near future.... Hawk

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