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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (52908)	10/18/2002 1:59:59 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Karen, you're not making much sense here. The question on the table is, is Iraq really a threat warranting action or is it not? The evidence in the Cuban missile crisis is neither here nor there on this question. Nor is the evidence on North Korea, which is its own, dangerous, separate problem -- one that has arisen because of the craven foreign policy of the last administration. We only know, officially, about the North Korean nukes because members of this administration confronted the North Koreans with damning evidence and the North Koreans decided to stop denying everything and 'fess up. These cries of "aha, that changes the dynamic, now one of the members of the 'axis of evil' has nukes!" are pretty silly imo. You keep trying to come up with some set of rules that the Bush administration must obey in its foreign policy. In reality, each case will be handled separately, as always. North Korea has nukes and Chinese patronage, making pre-emption non-viable. Even if they didn't have nukes, we must remember that Seoul is within DRK artillery range. However, the country is bankrupt and starving, with no patronage for its nukes (it's doubtful the Chinese are glad to see them either), so there is some leverage. Saddam has no patronage of any kind, except that which he can extort in blackmail from the neighbors, and hasn't got nukes yet, though he keeps trying. He does however, have billions of oil dollars as the sanctions have collapsed. Different case, different handling.