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To: stockman_scott who wrote (67528)	1/21/2003 6:41:30 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Molly Ivins doesn't seem all of one mind on this one: I am perfectly well aware there is a case to be made for taking out Saddam Hussein -- you can make it on humanitarian grounds alone. The question is whether it's riskier to leave him alone or take him out. The oldest of all Texas dicta is, "Leave the rattlesnake alone." Those of us who spend time outdoors here not infrequently encounter snakes and sometimes have to kill them. But the rule is: You don't bother the snake, snake won't bother you. Saddam Hussein is 68 years old and slipping. You guarantee that, Molly, honey? 'Specially after he gets nukes? Most snakes don't dream of being a second Saladin. And how is it that humanitarian grounds were good to go into Somalia or Kosovo -- correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't remember any imminent attacks from either place -- but no good for Iraq, with a far greater history of aggression? What, really is different, besides the party of the man in the White House?