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To: jlallen who wrote (36400)	6/11/2005 8:15:38 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (5) of 90947

Which evades the question. Clearly NK presented a greater threat. On that basis, it should have received priority. Iraq itself presented no credible conventional military threat to the US. An argument might be made that it presented an unconventional threat from WMD via terrorism. But no WMD have been found in Iraq and the evidence presented before the war of their existence was unconvincing. And this is Monday morning quarterbacking. We're in it now. At this point the only question worth discussing is how to rebuild the country and gov't on a democratic basis and leave without leaving an ungodly mess behind that will explode in our faces in the future and suck us back in. Those advocating immediate or close to immediate withdrawal don't take account of that: If the country is left in chaos, either a terrorist state or an Islamic theocracy (or a combination of the two) will emerge from the ruins and at some point we very likely will have to go back in following an attack on the US by Iraqi terrorists or a hostage situation like the Iranian one.

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