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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (95319)	4/21/2003 9:21:28 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

To sum up: What we did is, we handed a loaded gun to an undisciplined child And you think I patronize the Arabs? Saddam wasn't a child, he was a ruthless dictator. Nor did the US place him in power or hand him anything. The Iraqi King was overthrown in 1958, let's remember. This search for US responsiblity despite minimal involvement (and I've never seen evidence that the US backed the Ba'athists, who started after all solidly in the Soviet bloc) always reminds me of a trial lawyer's search for deep pockets - never mind whose fault it really was, let's find someone with money to whom we can assign 5% culpability. The rest of the reasoning is equally stretched. You think he would have fallen in the 80's if we had boycotted him? Why? He was getting Soviet support, remember? Those planes they just found in the dessert were MIGs. Nobody wanted Khomenei's Iran to win and become dominant in the Gulf. Nobody.