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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: steve harris who wrote (192418)6/30/2004 11:12:37 AM
From: SilentZ  Read Replies (2) of 1576841
 
>Ten years. Ok, let's use your number. At what point do we do something and what do we do? 8 years? 9 years?

That wasn't my point -- my point was that as long as we kept inspectors in Iraq, Saddam was 10 years away from having nukes, if he hadn't given up on 'em already.

>Sounds like a good reason for the US to continue deploying the antimissile defense shield at a minimum.

A pipe dream.

>Now what would you suggest we do. Inspections failed.

Well, they didn't really "fail" -- it seems there were no WMD in Iraq. But, what I'd do is keep soldiers with them so they couldn't be kicked out. I'd rather have inspectors in countries indefinitely than having to go to war.

>Iraq, North Korea, Iran, any threat. It would seem it would be easier to pay now instead of later.

How 'bout not at all?

>Israel took care of Saddam's initial nuclear threat.

I don't mind that approach. Pinpoint strikes are better than all-out regime change. Great intelligence makes those strikes possible and efficacious. I'd love it if we had a policy of bombing any nuclear reactor that Iran or North Korea were to build. That's actually a good solution!

-Z
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