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To: Elsewhere who wrote (41987)	9/4/2002 6:20:52 PM
From: epsteinbd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Even Barak Agrees with you! So it's only the last time I'd be wrong. A short list : -When the West did nothing after the Halabja gassing. I cried. -When France sold Saddam Osirak I and II. I screamed. -When Israel flattened Osirak II. I danced. Alone. -When Bush senior came out with his 100 hours gambit. I cried (again, for the Irakis). -When Clinton bombed Al Qaeda for forty five minutes. I was mad at him. -When Clinton had no follow up to the 4 days cruise missiles. Re-mad at him. -These days, as Saddam can pre-empt, or play the clock till, eventually it's too late. So I really, really hope that this time I am completely wrong. Paranoiac even. But if ever Democracies and Irakis lose a million people and the free world twenty/fifty million jobs because of a world economic crisis due to the proper conduct of UN diplomacy, what shall we do ? Say we followed the most civilized rules the best we could? It had to be done in this way. Hasn't recent history has told us that military victories are achieved best by a surprise attack. And with the UN, the moon, the infos we all get, it has turned to a within the hour call. So for a change, for once, I sense that America does not have to be such a Gentleman. A sneak attack. Yes. A Pearl Harbor in reverse. A fake Munich. A Barbar Rossa. Saddat's, Assad's Kippour.