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To: one_less who wrote (84107)	7/25/2000 7:28:41 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

<<I don't think you will see a more trusted leader surfacing if we were to get Saddam removed. >> Sorry Brees, I meant if the US had a more trusted leader. Could he get a Moslim movement together and restore Iraq to a better society?

To: one_less who wrote (84107)	7/25/2000 8:10:14 PM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 108807

What's the answer...beats me. However, injustice and greed for oil greed is an unacceptable approach. Greed for oil - which some would call the pursuit of a vital national interest - has been the cornerstone of our middle east policy for the last 30+ years, and that will continue. Fortunately, many Arabs see that policy as entirely compatible with their objectives. We want to buy oil; they want to sell it. Both sides gain from stability. The US negotiates and mediates most successfully when it is open about its special interests, and doesn't pretend to be pursuing some higher cause. The role of the US as a mediator has in many ways been enhanced since the Gulf war, which demonstrated our capacity and will to defend our interests, but that capacity is only valid in disputes between or among certain states. It would be difficult, for example, for the US under any administration to mediate a conflict involving Iran, because of historical factors. I don't see how the US under any administration could broker an anti-Saddam coalition; the Arab states simply have no will or motive to attack Iraq. The Iraqis will have to deal with Saddam themselves.