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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Orcastraiter who wrote (159607)3/24/2005 10:46:50 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
No they would not. Saddam would either comply...or die. The only difference is that under my plan he has a chance to spare himself and his country the invasion, but he would have to comply.


Saddam had the chance to spare his country the invasion. Bush said he wouldn't invade if Saddam stepped down. Saddam didn't take it. According to his later testimony and that of his officials, Saddam was counting on the French and Russians to save him from the actual invasion. He didn't really believe that Bush would invade...until Bush invaded. Saddam was always a lousy calculator of risk. But then Saddam had become detached from reality, as paranoid dictators surrounded by yes-men tend to do.

The actual invasion didn't work. Don't you think that insisting over and over that a mere bluff - a bluff which we know Saddam would have called - would have done the trick, when the actual real live invasion didn't do it, is rather infantile?
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