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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (21269)	6/29/2003 1:58:21 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

"To garner the public support it needed, the Administration had to concoct and market a self-defense rationale, namely, that Iraq was on the verge of a clandestine handoff of WMDs to Al Qaeda and therefore posed an imminent threat to America and Americans." thenation.com "The course and outcome of the war were a strong vindication of the UN. The big story of this war was the lack of proof that Saddam Hussein possessed usable weapons of mass destruction and the fact that he did not pose an imminent threat to regional, US or world security of an urgency and gravity that required instant war to topple him. The UN inspectors could indeed have been given more time and personnel to complete their job. " thenation.com

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (21269)	6/29/2003 3:43:24 PM
From: lurqer	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 89467

"To justify military intervention with the purpose of imposing democracy is either a cynical cover for imperialism or an act of irresponsible naïveté. Hmmm...Then there's both. Just wondering why anyone would preclude the possibility of an act of irresponsibly naïve imperialism? Would being so unaware of the nature and history of the Middle East as to not expect a Tar Baby guerilla war to ensue in an occupied Iraq, qualify? Anybody that thinks that the current situation is going according to some neo-con master plan to get us further involved in the Middle East needs to do some reading. amazon.co.uk Explains the concept of a Tar Baby in terms that a child can understand. JMO lurqer