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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (128646)4/7/2004 3:03:58 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
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.

Not really.... The Baathist regime had what international politics favors uber alles : stability. Just like North Korea is nice and stable.

That North Korea could very likely be a (though they're not the only ones) source of nuclear weapons is way down the list of criteria where international diplomacy is concerned. All the more so if the likelihood would be that any of these weapons are used against the US civilian population and not anybody else.

I don't believe Iraq had any real weapons of mass destruction left at the time we invaded, though the regime did have lots of stockpiles of other arms (as well as mass graves and other nice things to their credit.) But if sanctions had ever ended, I'm pretty sure that the regime would have started their program up again at the first opportunity, rather than taking Libya's route.

This whole argument wouldn't ever have had to be made though if we'd been able to do what needed to be done after the Gulf War. In hindsight that was a real mistake not toppling the regime then and getting it over with. We probably wouldn't even have needed to leave military bases in Saudi Arabia.
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