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To: michael97123 who wrote (77740)	2/26/2003 7:25:01 PM
From: Condor	Respond to of 281500

Hi Mike, Thanks for your reply. "Presumably" is the operational word you use. Because although you might support action in the end many of your ilk<g> would not. That is an assumption that I don't feel is correct. I think it is an error for you to believe that the protestors who do not envision war as a first step in problem solving condone and suggest tyranny should be condoned and WMD proliferation and dispersal to radicals is OK. For 12 years now, Saddam has crossed line after line drawn in the sand so the question becomes when are you willing to cross that line? The problem is that no line in the sand has been drawn for the past 12 years. This problem has been removed to the back burner for twelve years by the countries of the world including the US. It has sent out bad signals to the offending party. It is time to put this problem front and centre and knuckle down to business. I challenge that war is an incorrect first step. You will tell me let inspections continue, thus the summer comes, US troops are removed, saddam kicks out inspectors and next year it will be 13 years gone by. mike That is your scenario. I have never promoted that. I (again) firmly believe that huge pressure and inspections and process should be used to resolve the issue and indeed vigorous subversion of the regime should be undertaken. It is my understanding that $ numbers up to $ 100,000,000,000 have been bantered about as the cost of an immediate military intervention. I believe 2-3% of that may be all that is necessary to take down this regime and allow the US notto jeopardize its place of moral leadership in the world. Again, I feel rolling the dice on hopeful prospects of success in this altercation is no way to engage the problem and the world. Regards C