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To: Tim Luke who wrote (34000)	2/9/1998 11:22:00 PM
From: Jack Whitley	Read Replies (1) of 61433

<<Do you have a theory why we did not finish the job? We must of known that if we let him live there would be future problems. What are the chances of Iraq having Nukes? This is all mind blowing to me if in fact he does have a nuclear bomb what's to stop him from using it if and when we attack?> President Bush was getting queasy about overstepping the bounds of the UN resolution to "eject Iraq from Kuwait", not conquer Iraq. Colin Powell helped him decide by telling him it had become a slaughter of Iraqi soldiers on the "highway of death" leading back to Baghdad. They were both afraid of losing the coalition of nations put together (Arab nations). If the "weapons of mass destruction card" had been played at that point, we could have justified marching to Baghdad and Saddam would have had to flee (if he could get asylum, he was having trouble with that). Hindsight is 20/20, but to me it is painful to have spent all that money and time to get troops over there, and not eliminate him. Air strikes alone will not change the current situation. I would say that now if he used a nuke or even biological weapons other than mustard gas, we'd give him and the citzens 24 hours to vacate his city, then we'd torch it. I think he knows this. Regarding networking, I sure like Ascend's outlook going forward. jww

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