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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Michael Watkins who wrote (148409)10/21/2004 7:22:49 AM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
That is a different argument. We were discussing whether the Administration had a good faith conviction that Iraq constituted a threat.

The decision to go to war was not arbitrary. It was a reasonable calculation, given that Saddam had only cooperated when confronted with threats, and with the fact that we were fully mobilized, and could only degrade our troop moral by waiting to roll. If, then, one believed that Saddam's recalcitrance was evidentiary, and that further inspections could never be conclusive; if one bought the idea that the sanctions regime was riddled with holes, and likely to fall apart; if one thought that we had an affirmative obligation to consider the future of the Iraqi people, especially after having encouraged their premature uprising ten years earlier, to their detriment; and if one considered the merits of moving before the summer, it was time to bring things to a conclusion.
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