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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (155702)1/9/2005 8:39:34 AM
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<Sanctions were falling apart fast> With no WMDs and no active WMD programs, all that was left for Saddam to do was to do a proper accounting of destroyed WMD. If Saddam had complied with the UN (assuming the records existed), then there would be no further justification for sanctions and they would indeed likely to have been lifted -- ending the suffering of the Iraqi people at least in terms of the crushing impact of the sanctions. In your expressed view, lifting sanctions was unacceptable and our invasion was in part a way to make sure that did not happen. If the UN set conditions and Iraq met those conditions, there is no legitimate reason to either maintain sanctions much less to invade Iraq.
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