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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (67908)	1/23/2003 1:47:04 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Nadine do you remember this...Bush 41 appearing on tv and purposely mispronouncing Saddam so he was actually saying "toilet" He compared Hussein to Hitler. And yet you say he didn't plan to remove him? or do you believe he thought US aggression would magically make Saddam disappear? Do you remember him threatening Saddam, the bombing of Baghdad, the searching for Saddam. I do. I also remember that there were only two different film clips of missiles against the night sky which were shown repeatedly. We don't even know if those were missiles over Iraq. We do know now, the smart bombs weren't very good. I remember the captured pilot whose cut face appeared on Newsweek Magazine and the concern the American public had about him and his fate, although I do recall, he was returned. Then there was the big mess to clean up afterward in the Gulf, oil fields burning. Special fire fighters for whom it took a year to put out those infernos. The gulf war syndrome among those who served over there still plagues thousands. You say Bush stopped for reasons abc including CNN coverage. I take that to mean, you believe he was going for Saddam's removal but extenuating circumstances prevented it? Then you say that in hindsight "stopping short of causing Saddam's fall was a mistake". Now we have the less bright, less competent Bush plotting a war with no idea what to do after invading, no real plan for the future. Look to the rocky Afghanistan govt and you will see that we have problems with stabilizing govts far from our shores whose agenda never intersects with ours.