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To: Fred Levine who wrote (65802)9/12/2002 3:32:50 PM
From: michael97123  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 70976
 
"Given the absence of a crystal ball, it aint easy."

Fred,
You can only give it your best shot and we civilians do it with limited info. During vietnam the govt invented info--this is always a danger. Logic tells me bush is right but logic also told most of us Vietnam was right early on in the war. I just dont see containment as viable policy and folks refuse to properly label it as balance of terror with an evil man perhaps a maniac and most importantly an idiot. Saddam is stupid so of course he will miscalculate. Bin Laden i suspect is counting on that too to throw the world into turmoil, particularly after we use are nukes in response to some adventure he undertakes. mike



To: Fred Levine who wrote (65802)9/12/2002 4:10:12 PM
From: Zeev Hed  Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 70976
 
Fred, lets assume that Saddam indeed develops WMD. Do you think he'll use these? Saddam has only one interest, self preservation of his regime, using WMD by him will bring him down and possibly millions of innocent Iraqis as well, he is not going to use such. We managed to over come a much bigger "evil empire" (the soviets) without a single shot, why can't we find smarter ways to do the same with Saddam?

Zeev


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