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To: Dayuhan who wrote (25031)	1/18/2004 7:35:17 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (5) of 793718

There was no reason not to embark on a campaign of escalating pressure, starting with far more aggressive enforcement of sanctions But Steven, you are ignoring the fact that such a campaign had already been tried, and had failed completely. Remember Colin Powell's effort at "smart sanctions" in the UN? It was an effort to reimplement the sanctions regime, in such a way as to hurt the Iraqi people less (they were suffering, and the US was taking tremendous propaganda damage from Saddam's daily parade of dead babies). France and Russia squelched it. France and Russia made it perfectly, absolutely clear that they would use all their influence to see that sanctions were lifted entirely, not enforced. And the sanctions regime was falling apart. Pollack goes into the details in his book. It was very likely that sanctions were simply going to be lifted, and the US was going to have to do a massive climb-down before a triumphant Saddam. To say, "but there were other options," you have to lay them out, and make a case for them, because it's far from obvious. You can't just wish them into being againt the evidence.

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