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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (237583)7/23/2007 11:07:50 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
You can say that he didn't hide money in Syria, but seeing as how much money is missing, it seems a rational thing to suggest. Jlallen would like to suggest he moved WMD to sell them- but actually moving cash and valuables, which are less tricky to dispose of, makes a lot more sense to me. I don't think Saddam was as irrational as you think he was. He made some miscalculations about the US, but he was trying to be logical; he simply didn't know the US very well. He thought bluffing the US would work the same as his bluffs in the ME. Sadly, that was a miscalculation, but it was rational given that he did not understand the US.

Of course we are all free to spin whatever fantasies we want. I just don't buy yours. You are free not to buy mine.
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