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To: Orcastraiter who wrote (159542)	3/24/2005 10:19:25 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Yes we needed to act...we installed Saddam and bear responsibility for him even being in power in the first place The US never installed Saddam, Orca. What a strange history you must learn. The CIA had some involvement, not much, with the Baathists coming in 1963, but that was way pre-Saddam. Saddam murdered his way to the top of the Baathist party on his own devices. After that the US dealt with him as a fair accompli. The sanctions were a travesty. The problem with Iraq is that we were not paying the proper attention to the situation. Clinton is responsible for that. I don't think that most Americans knew the impact of the sanctions on the people. I didn't. That's strange, I certainly heard enough about the million dead Iraqi children the sanctions had supposedly killed. Orca, if Iraq didn't show the uselessness of sanctions, esp. when your vaunted 'international community' choses to break them, nothing will. More diplomacy could only have managed to keep Saddam in power, without the sanctions. This is the result you were rooting for, be honest about it.

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