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To: dumbmoney who wrote (134654)5/27/2004 9:09:20 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
General Zinni has a few axes of his own to grind just now. If you will notice, he is concentrating on one aspect of containment only: containing Saddam as a conventional threat against his neighbors. The question of containing Saddam as a supplier of terrorists, or containing Saddam oil income, or what the sanctions were doing to the Iraqis (or Saddam's dead baby parades were doing to us), are not addressed. Because as far as the US was concerned, they were all widely unsuccessful. Remember what happened to Colin Powell when he tried to get revised 'smart sanctions' through the UN?

Not to mention what might have happened in a year or two, when sanctions collapsed altogether, as France and Russia were working for, and Saddam went shopping in Pakistan and North Korea.
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