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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (51229)	10/11/2002 3:23:27 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

You're hopeless. First you want me to name names, then you start talking about pasta and opera.

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (51229)	10/12/2002 10:55:03 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Jordan? I don't think they want the US launching an attack. I don't believe the UA emirates, Saudi Arabia wish for the US to start a war with IRaq either. Turkey, I read they said "no" Kuwait? Karen, Let me recommend you either pick up a copy of Pollock's book at the bookstore or check it out of the library. He has a section on regional players. Going on tek's assurances, Pollock grinds no political axes and knows a great deal about precisely this topic. So, in a world in which information is spun before even the opinions are spun, Pollock seems to be the genuine article. On this point, he argues it's a very mixed bag. The old answer, it depends, probably sums it up best. But it's clear that it's not clear. Different factions within different countries favor different results. I think the short of it is that no one is particularly happy to have Saddam in the neighborhood but the combination of economic ties with Iraq and with the US, distaste for American and Iraqi rhetoric, failed US attacks on Iraq in the past, etc. lead all of the countries in the region to be, at a minimum, wary.