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To: coug who wrote (3070)	8/29/2005 5:56:29 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 541004

Re: "The Highway of Death" and "And I agree about Tibet." If we would have tried to defend Tibet we would have had to have killed a lot more Chinese than we killed Iraqis on that highway. Also it could be argued that we were not thorough enough, rather then too thourough after the first Gulf War. If we had overthrown Saddam then it might have been easier than dealing with Iraq now (but you can't really be sure about this). If we had forged on for a few more days and destroyed more of Saddam's Republican Guard, its possible that Saddam might have been overthrown and the post war massacre's could have been avoided. Of course this is all speculation. Its also possible that if Saddam was weakened he still would have defeated the uprisings but only after an even longer and more brutal period of massacre and repression. Or he could have lost and the country would have been in even worse shape than it is now. To many what if's and uncertainties about the end of that war. I'm not sure second guessing really is useful. As for Tibet what would you have had us do? Message 21649441

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