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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (366322)	3/4/2003 9:12:50 PM
From: George Coyne	Respond to of 769669

Believe what you will. As Rock would say, "you have no proof".

To: TigerPaw who wrote (366322)	3/4/2003 9:13:42 PM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769669

Fiction.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (366322)	3/4/2003 9:47:31 PM
From: Rock_nj	Respond to of 769669

Another purpose of keeping Saddam in power was that he could be used as a bogeyman to justify high defense spending for the forseeable future. Especially, with the Cold War coming to the close, I'm sure the military/industrial complex was phreaking out over the prospect of seeing their budgets trimed as our arch enemy the Soviet Union was disappearing. Saddam was a convient foe.