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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (76573)	2/22/2003 3:43:50 PM
From: KonKilo	Respond to of 281500

...the UN and our allies...wanted to undermine the sanctions by trading with Saddam. And the 8,000 missing pages most likely showed that we were in on the action too. We all need to stop playing footsie one day and crying foul the next. I wrote: And UN inspectors rifling through the palace linen closets lends itself to dignity? You wrote: But I thought you for a beefed up coercive inspections regime? I think I was not clear here. Keller was saying that heightened sanctions would "humiliate" Saddam. My comment was meant to disagree with that assessment. Bottom line is, you want war now, while I want to see incremental pressure applied. Either approach will result in disarmament, but my way hopefully causes fewer unintended consequences.