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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (2447)	1/20/2003 1:03:53 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

I see! So, it's all about "liberating" the poor Iraqis, eh? Gustave.. it's about A LOT OF THINGS.. Everyone can find their own personal rationale. Mine is that if we don't do it now, we likely won't get the chance later on.. And we're definitely regret it later on as Saddam goes nuclear and becomes the defacto leader of the Arab nations. Arab nations that will provide the young manpower, due to the existing baby boom there, to threaten their neighbors and wage war against the west. I also don't have any problem placing additional pressure on Castro. Personally, I think we should be overtly and covertly funding attempts to overthrow him. But he, like Kim Jong Il, are not truly threatening the economic interests of the whole world, as Saddam is. And that, Gustave, is where oil comes in to play.... I won't deny oil is a major factor. I admit it. But there's also the fact that Saddam has brutalized his own people, and threatened/invaded his neighbors. And since Saddam is failing to comply with a binding UN resolution (which neither Castro nor Jong are), we have more than enough rationale to justify the use of force against him. Hell, we had enough reason to do so when we caught him bald-faced lying back in 1995 about all of those stashed WMDs he was hiding.. Hawk