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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: stockman_scott who wrote (2312)	1/19/2003 7:55:53 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Respond to of 25898

Per your Message 18464219 On the FADG thread. I was going to reply over there , but found they booted me off , for the most part they would rather stay in the dark , and blow up one anothers balloons. --- That counterspin was well written, better than I could do, however it didn't seem to point out that the 91 war was more the result of a winding down of the cold war with Russia, and it was arranged by power brokers on both sides. IN effect it was a Contest between Russia Air Defense and our ability to penetrate it. The Hawks on both sides had to see this. Saddam was the patsy, baited in and caught in the middle. --- We didn't take him out because before we went in the deal with the Ruskies was that it would be limited, and had we took him out at that time we could not have built any type of relationship with the KBG. --- Jim