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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (100470)	6/6/2003 5:11:53 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

for 12 years Saddam has obfuscated, hampered, deceived, and effectively did everything possible to avoid abiding by the UN cease fire stipulations from 1991 and every other resolution afterward Yep. But there's nothing to do with terrorism there, and that's the point I'm making... the terrorist connection is at best past and irrelevant. I'm sure we could depend on Rumsfeld etc. to mention anything credible and relevant - if there were such. BTW, our stance on enforcing UN resolutions would sound less hypocritical, more consistent, if we tried enforcing 242 and its many successors. Just a thought... Iraq will likely prove the key to reconfiguring the entire mid-east ... dealing with Saudi Arabia should be much easier.. They will no longer be "untouchable" (given their oil production). Mmm, yes, the PNAC agenda. Rebuild the ME be selective colonisation, for the good of the world (or at least that portion of it subservient to the US). And annex the oil supply, of course. Fine strategic politicing, and roughly what I believe to be the real aim and agenda from the start. Shame about the cant, bluster, obfuscation and lies it came wrapped in. But perhaps such blatant imperialism might prove hard to sell to the rest of the world? Not exactly consistent with freedom-loving democracy, IMO... more like "might is right", or "I've got more nukes and missiles so f*ck the rest of you, I'll deal with thge rest of the world as I want"...