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To: SirRealist who wrote (36815)	8/10/2002 5:33:04 AM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

He can be brought down by economic sanctions that stick, negotiated with those who worm their way around them. The cost is less in lives of our young and the lives of many ordinary Iraqis. Like economic sanctions brought down Castro? Don't count on Iran or Syria to be our buddies in the sanctions regime. Continued Iraqi sanctions are dead on arrival, especially since the rediscovered friendship between Syria and Iraq. Russia and France are just dying to put those oil exploration contracts they negotiated with Saddam to good use, so don't count on those two permanent members of the SC being too eager to sign on to New and Improved Tighter Sanctions<tm>. And I'm obviously less comfortable than you with leaving Saddam to his own ends inside Iraq given what our intelligence community DIDN'T/DOESN'T know about when, not if, he can aquire the Bomb. Derek