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To: jtech who wrote (42689)1/18/2003 1:57:03 PM
From: james-rockford  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 43080
 
He waited last time. At the very end he will leave, only after 10's of thousands of his countrymen have died, and there is no chance of cutting another deal with a gullible President (George Sr.), then, he will go into exile.

Just before the end of Gulf War I, Saddam was in his plane on the tarmac of a small airport outside of Baghdad. U.S. Army Intelligence has the radio intercepts between his plane and the Control Tower. At the first sign of Allied Armor moving on Baghdad, he was gone to Yemen. President Bush was informed of these intercepts, all we had to do was feint towards Baghdad and Saddam was out of there. But-----we didn't.

Colin Powell, who was pushing hard for the last deal with Saddam is the same driving force behind going to the UN this time. "We need consensus.... blah, blah, blah." Thus, the current UN dog & pony show.

The big question I think is: What do we do when Gulf War II is over?---- The U.S doesn't want to lay the groundwork for another fundamentalist Muslim government that our past policies led to in Iran and Afghanistan.