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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (155697)1/9/2005 2:32:08 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (6) of 281500
 
So, everyone simply KNEW there were weapons of mass destruction

That was more than wishfullness. Saddam paid about $200 billion in sanctions penalties for -- nothing? a bluff? Would you believe it? Neither did the intelligence services of every major country, especially considering his track record.

Your list leaves of the main motivations: reshaping the Middle East so it connects to the rest of the world, and doesn't just remain a gas station pumping out oil and terror. to prevent a triumphant Saddam Hussein from reclaiming his place at the head of the biggest Arab power.

Knowing what they know now, they would absolutely NOT have started the war.


I absolutely disagree. They would have waged it differently. They would have laid plans to cut off the insurgency before it began. But they would have gone forward, because the other options looked no better. Sanctions were falling apart fast.
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