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To: Lou Weed who wrote (99151)	5/26/2003 12:27:29 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Obviously the French and much more so the Russians had financial reasons to object however there's also a thing called international law. Would you be referring to those 17 Ch 7 UN resolutions? The ones Saddam flouted? The ones the Security Council couldn't be bothered to do anything about? Please do not push the line that everybody else respects international law, only bad Uncle Sam flouts it. I don't want to have to laugh out loud. Iran poses a much greater threat to stability in the ME You have a point there. I think you'll see the US turning its attention to Iran next. What do you think is prompting the mullahs to say, "yes Al Qaeda is a very bad organization and - what do you know - we do have some of them in our country". Look at a map. Iran now has American bases on both east and west sides. Containment, anyone? yet we isolate a country that was crippled financially from years of UN sanctions, was defanged to the point where Friedman (AEI) called them the Flinstones, was contained between 2 no fly zones from which air strikes were made on a regular basis If you will cast your mind back to Colin Powell's losing battle for "smart sanctions" you will remember that containment was breaking down. We were spending billions on it, every other country was working to break it, Saddam was getting a propaganda killing in the Arab world by parading dead babies (literally) and proclaiming himself the guy who defied the Great Satan and lived. In short, we were spending billions to look like weak, cowardly baby-killers. Not to mention the aid and haven that Saddam was giving to terrorist networks - and we now know that he was working with Al Qaeda branches as well as funding Palestinian terror, so please don't give me that wheeze about that being unproven too. The whole point of the post 9/11 situation is that hostile jihadists do not need a functioning army to do us real harm. I agree there are agendas here, MON. But they're not hidden and there's no need to look for them under rocks. They are right out in the open.