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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (9526)	2/17/2003 9:46:04 PM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

I recall that the Israelis bombed an Iraqi nuclear facility when it became known that Iraq was using it to produce weapons. That was done immediately, just the way we should have done in North Korea. Of course, Saddam wanted to annex Kuwait, and the U.S. let him do it because the President thought the advice of his ambassador wasn't as good as that of a Kansas senator whose constituents were doing a lot of business with Iraq. Stupidity rules again. Art

To: Brumar89 who wrote (9526)	2/17/2003 9:48:43 PM
From: Machaon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

<< Ironically, if he'd been sternly warned off and deterred from attacking Kuwait in 1990, he would have waited a few years till he had nuclear weapons before making his move during the Clinton administration. >> Interesting observation. Perhaps America's blunder, in not making it clear to Saddam NOT to invade Iraq, actual saved the world from a nuclear confrontation. With Clinton in office, there would have been a huge disaster. The big question then is: Can America save the world from a nuclear, or chemical, or biological confrontation now?