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To: LindyBill who wrote (72020)	2/7/2003 12:11:23 AM
From: BCherry168	Respond to of 281500

"Let's hope that no German Business turns out to have sold equipment and material to Iraq that could be used to make poison gas." Hope, surely. Confidence, none. The Germans, French and Russians have been violating the UN sanctions on Iraq for years. So have the Chinese. Why else would the be putting forward the drivel that seems to their foreign policies of late? What these folks are doing and have done is make themselves and the UN totally irrelevant. France and Germany are going to kill NATO. And the UN. RIP

To: LindyBill who wrote (72020)	2/7/2003 12:19:57 AM
From: Rollcast...	Respond to of 281500

I agree, why this regional shift is not desirable to some here boggles the mind. How could this sort of dynamic shift not impact terrorism and AQ on a massive scale? Their only remaining safehavens would be outside of the Arab peninsula. And with the sort of resolve demonstrated by the US in this instance we would have very little difficulty handling new safehavens as they are found. If there are any left. This is worth the risk. Without action now, we will eventually have a nuclear armed Iraq, and even later a nuclear armed Iraq controlling the Arab peninsula, and a few years later we just might be fighting a world war.