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To: stockman_scott who wrote (45669)	9/20/2002 3:28:46 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Great post, thanks for posting. Even though I know the hawks will just shrug their shoulders and say, "there goes that Ritter again." <<Saddam Hussein didn’t kick out the U.N. inspectors. They were ordered out by the U.S. government, which then used information they provided to bomb 100 locations that had nothing to do with weapons of mass destruction. So the weapons inspectors were used by the United States.>> <<I think this is more about the people surrounding George W. Bush—Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, John Bolton, Richard Perle—who have committed their political and intellectual capital to regime removal. They’ve invested in this so much that they’ve boxed themselves into a rhetorical and ideological corner where they have no ability to maneuver. We’ve trapped ourselves with our own rhetoric, with our own speculations, with our own ideology, our own politics. I think that’s what this is all about. This is about politics. If any other head of state used the term “regime change” it would be called terrorism.>>