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To: michael97123 who wrote (70252)	1/30/2003 11:51:04 AM
From: FaultLine	Respond to of 281500

1. If there hadnt been a credible US threat of war and pressure on the UN, there would have been no inspections, thus no containment of wmds possible before the fact. Is this accurate? Don't you see this is unanswerable unless one just wants to be dogmatic about it? 2. IF perpetual inspections are a substitute for a credible threat of war in order to keep saddam in the box, US forces will degrade and saddam will be back in the saddle sooner rather than later. Sez who? That is just one possibility. Now we are down to the final days. Should the US withdraw its prior threat now? Should the US go for perpetual inspections which some want? Or should we continue the pressure hoping for an exile or coup scenario but prepared to go to war? And since apparently that decision has been made, do we alter it if the UN doesnt go along? What the heck do you think we have been talking about for the past 40,000 posts? --fl