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To: D. Long who wrote (17504)	11/24/2003 11:31:52 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (3) of 793846

Derek, the Administration can state their own reasons for starting the war. Surely Bush Jr., who speaks not only to Bush Sr., but also to others like Jim Baker etc. would be aware of the containment policy of past Administrations. But the energy lobby in DC got the better of Bush and along with those folks he launched the attack on Iraq. Another reason, judging from some of his public utterances, is that Saddam tried to assassinate his father. So there is some personal vendetta also involved here. Definitely it is not the "imminent threat" of WMD, not that Saddam had something to do with 9/11. The Administration has so far not been able to show us the "smoking gun" as far as Saddam. Sometimes he says he brought about a regime change because Saddam tortured his own people, mass graves etc. Then on another day he tells us that US should install a democratic form of Govt. in Iraq and make it the seed state for the democratic movement in the Arab world. What is it? We don't expect the US President, of all persons in the world, to flip flop like that.

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