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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (3314)	3/18/2002 3:11:38 AM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 21057

A number of our supposed European allies went over the hill on the Iraqi embargo after they kicked out the inspectors. Why assume they would not stab us in the back again? We don't need the European allies for this. We do need the forward bases provided by allies like Turkey and Saudi Arabia to operate effectively in Iraq on a large or even medium scale. I hope and assume that measures short of full-scale invasion are being fairly evaluated. I worry, though, that too much priority is being given to the person of Saddam, and not enough to the more practical task of eliminating the capacity to do harm. We might miss facilities We might, but even hitting a few would give a much better idea of the state of their WMD efforts. We have had that country under intense surveillance for years, and have been devoting huge resources to intelligence gathering. Iraq is not that wealthy or technologically sophisticated a country; their capacity for construction large, complex, totally secret installations would be limited. It would be very disappointing if we did not have a fairly good idea of the locations of the most sensitive sites. An action like that could ignite the region anyway. When you are in a place that ignites easily, it is often best to remain mobile and commit limited resources for limited periods of time.