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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (73403)	2/12/2003 5:11:23 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

So this European "answer" amounts to saying that American troops should sit on Saddam's borders forever (can you say "sitting ducks"?) while inspectors run round and round looking for the needle in a haystack. And all the while Saddam is "humiliated" as Iraq's sovereignty is trampled by inspectors!!! Humiliated, horsefeathers. He'll have a grand old time laughing at the inspectors as he makes fools of them. I posted the the De Borchgrave piece because I thought it had some good information with respect to the buzzing of terrorists in Chechnya and the Caucasus who will be targeting Europe, but otherwise there was nothing new. Yes, we know that W has crossed his own Rubicon, etc., etc., blah, blah, blah.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (73403)	2/12/2003 5:33:39 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The Carolingians (and U.S. State Dept., and Russian, and Chinese, and a lot of people in the Pentagon and the CIA) think that "containment and deterance", rather than "regime change" is the way to deal with Iraq. They are not so upset at the idea of Saddam having WMD, as they calculate he'll never use them (again). And that all it will take is one U.S. Division of heavy armor in Kuwait, and an occasional visit to nearby waters by a carrier group, to deter. As soon as the Iraq "regime change" is done (but long before any "nation-building" has happened, if it ever does), expect to have the exact same debate re. N. Korea. To save time, we can all just go back to our old Iraq posts, change the names, and repost them.