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To: JohnM who wrote (20398)	3/1/2002 10:22:57 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

John, should we just wring our hands in anguish? Please tell us your plan to avoid more mayhem. It is obviously risky to take over Iraq, but Saddam did it. So it can't be all that difficult. I'm sure Iraqis want peace, prosperity and happy families, like the rest of us, with opportunities and fun. Living in the shadow of Saddam's capricious violent acts [not to mention Uday's and others'] can't be a lot of fun. His sons in law ended up unhappy about it. As have a lot of people. Okay, it's complicated. So what do we do? Cross our fingers and hope? Sign a 'Peace in our time' memorandum of goodwill with Saddam? We've seen what happened last time a megalomaniac who hated Jews got loose on the world. I don't want to give this one an inch. Unlike Hitler, Saddam was stopped as soon as he stepped over the border. That was a good idea. But ironically, if he'd been left to maraud at will, he'd almost assuredly have snapped off Saudi Arabia as well as Kuwait and maybe Osama would have been stymied at square one. But that's all conjecture. Mqurice