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To: Taro who wrote (252805)	9/27/2005 12:45:01 PM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (2) of 1570945

But personally I believe Saddam would never have invaded Kuwait if he had received a clear message from us that no way we would let him get away with that. This reminds me of something I think about occassionally. In terms of history, it may have been a better approach for the rest of the world to let Saddam have Kuwait in 1990, then after a few years let him invade Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE and Bahrain, and THEN go in and kick his butt, but replace the monarchies of those countries with local democratically elected officials. This way Saddam would have been the bad guy that forcibly removed all these "royal family" clowns, and the UN/coalition/whatever, could be the good guy that frees the people of the region from the evil tyrant Saddam Hussein, but doesn't put the old guard (who are the source of much of the ME's prblem) back in control. Just an idea. It's kind of hard to mesh GB's "promotion of freedom and democracy" ideas with the fact that we kicked Saddam out of Kuwait and reinstalled an unelected, undemocratic royal family (who are also dictators in their own right).

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