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To: Alighieri who wrote (155339)	11/27/2002 5:48:42 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579807

Not necessarily. If Blix is competent and he and his people work with determination and intelligence, and if the US and the UN back the effort 100% then there is some hope. But if Saddam is allowed to get away with even half of the obstruction that he did last time then the effort is doomed. My point was not that it can't be done now (if everything happens the way I specify above) but rather that it was impssoble before when Saddam was allowed to delay and obstruct. Tim

To: Alighieri who wrote (155339)	11/27/2002 6:08:05 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579807

So you think the mission is doomed or rigged from the start? Whatever else you say about it, the return of the inspectors was a HUGE foreign policy victory for Bush. During the campaign, he made it clear that he intended to rectify the mistakes of the previous administration in tolerating Saddam's beligerance. We may end up in a war yet -- but we may not. Just having the inspectors back in is a major victory and certainly reinstalls some limits on what Saddam can get away with. At this point, unless there is a particularly clear violation, I'm betting there won't be a war. But at least we'll have reinstated some kind of containment. I'll encourage you and the other liberals on this board to go back an re-read your posts from several months ago, when you were all in a panic about the upcoming war and the Bush administration's unilateralism. The reality the administration was playing this situation like a grand piano, totally knew what they were doing, and did what needed to be done. You may want to keep this in mind before you over-react to the next situation that crops up. It is merely the difference in having professionals running national security, vs. having the amateur hour of the previous 8 years.