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To: Sam who wrote (128632)	4/7/2004 1:38:56 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (3) of 281500

Change of the sort you and others are contemplating is always tricky, and violence of the sort that the US has done is rarely successful in bringing about something positive. That is certainly true. However, you must factor in the unique awfulness of Saddam's regime into the equation, and the crumbling of the sanctions. All this stuff we now hear from the left about how Saddam was a lamb, no threat to anybody, and the situation was totally under control is a bunch of crap. Had nothing been done, the sanctions would soon have dissolved entirely (France and Russia were doing their utmost to help), and Saddam would have been free to complete his shopping trip at AQ Khan's Sam's Club for Nukes (we know he tried even under sanctions). Then we would have been facing a nuclear-armed and triumphant Saddam, the only question being in which direction he would point his aggression, and whether he would do so directly or through terrorist proxies. That is why the Bush administration was paying attention to Iraq from day one, not because the neocons had a sudden urge to go conquer the Middle East.

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