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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (40454)	8/28/2002 2:47:22 AM
From: SirRealist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

That is why the world rested on the hair-trigger of the Cold War for forty years, and central and eastern Europe were abandoned to their fates. Not the most convincing argument for repeating the arrangement on a smaller scale, even leaving Al Qaeda's potential out of the picture. Yes, leave Al Qaeda out of the picture because it's overrated, disrupted, fragmented, and irrelevant to Iraq. The Soviet Union had a larger military than ours, was not subject to 60% of its land as a no fly zone, had a working economy, an ideology that was appealling to many around the globe, provided arms and troops to distant corners of the globe, and did not have its 'bomb' outnumbered 400-to-1 by Connecticut a half mile down the road. We could hand Hussein a nuke and tie one hand behind our backs, and no Cold War would occur. In fact, considering Israel's superior intelligence, if, in fact, Iraq had a nuke, they woulda bombed and eliminated it already. And you, especially, know that.