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To: jlallen who wrote (9159)	4/16/2002 8:55:44 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

senior Pentagon civilians such as Wolfowitz and their allies elsewhere in the Bush administration fear that a go-ahead by the Iraqi leader could delay and possibly fatally undermine their overall goal to start a military campaign against Iraq... A former State Department official familiar with the report said Wolfowitz had "hit the ceiling" because it failed to provide sufficient ammunition to undermine Blix and, by association, the new UN weapons inspection program... The request for a CIA investigation underscored the degree of concern by Wolfowitz and his civilian colleagues in the Pentagon that new inspections - or protracted negotiations over them - could torpedo their plans for military action to remove Saddam from power. That looks to me like they really want to have a war and will resist any step short of invasion. I wonder if one of the reasons that Colin Powell is less devoted to the idea of war is that he actually knows something about it. Maybe we should pack Perle and Wolfowitz off to the front lines for a bit and give them some perspective.