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To: JohnM who wrote (67699)	1/22/2003 1:21:28 PM
From: michael97123	Respond to of 281500

Had read it before an reread it. Why containment wont work No one ever answers this view of what would happen down the road. Please take a shot at it John. Lets assume we dont go to war, saddam kicks out inspectors in late spring when its too hot to go to war, not to mention we have removed our forces. Saddam decides to invade Kuwait again the following year. We get ready for desert strorm 2 but saddam says we have bio agents in your cities that our agents(perhaps al q) will disperse. He leaves a vial of anthrax under a park bench. Does an american president in his right mind risk Chicago lets say, for Kuwait. No a rational man would cut a deal with saddam. Big Daddy, you win. Give us a long term contract for the oil, remove the terroists or agents, and keep kuwait. Next stop saudi arabia. No american president would risk a major bio attack, not to mention suitcase nuke or a nuke in a dingy offshore, for Arabs if the oil can be secured peaceably. Call it appeasement but that would be my policy. What would yours be in that scenarario? mike