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To: zonder who wrote (2335)	1/17/2003 10:18:28 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

Thanks. None of us relishes war. I supported Desert Storm, but mourned the Iraqi conscripts whom we rolled over, for example. I just thought that the principle of resolving territorial disputes diplomatically should be upheld; that the Iraqi claim was bogus, considering that Kuwait was only briefly an administrative unit of Iraqi under a colonial regime, and had had its own emir since the 18th century; that the Iraqi regime was brutal; and that Saddam had ambitions to control the Arabian oil fields, and thus gain a stranglehold over the world economy. I figured that the toll would be less if we dealt with him then rather than later. I am sorry that the palace coup Bush pere had counted on faltered, and that we have to do this again. I understand a distaste for a preemptive strike. I understand worry about the consequences. I try to make allowances for feelings running high. I have found that you are not so closed off when the conversation is not polarized, and that your underlying position is often more reasonable than some would have assumed......