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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: stockman_scott who wrote (147384)10/8/2004 11:50:39 AM
From: michael97123  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
"IMO, we could have continued with 'Vigilant Containment' of Saddam and ramped up our efforts to covertly engineer a coup (it sure would not have cost thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of our tax dollars)..."

Scott,
Now you are a spook--engineer a coup in iraq? Dont you think we would have if we could have? You are dreaming because you are looking for simplistic, inexpensive and impossible solutions.
And "Vigilant Containment", with some of our allies breaking sanctions and working directly against the interests of the free world as well as UN resolutions, certainly would have made that quite impossible as well.
IF we are real, the alternative was to let saddam get out of the box he was in and hope for the best. Actually if you want a cynical approach, we could have sponsored his revival and cut a deal with the SOB as he stated to his captors that improving relations with the US was very important to him. Perhaps he could have been used again vis a vis iran and perhaps even al quaeda. Mike
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