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

To: sea_biscuit who wrote (425366)	7/10/2003 5:26:28 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

It is obvious that Iraq was in no position to directly challenge us, militarily. Therefore, it had to act through proxies, where the origin of the attacks could be kept obscure, until such time as the United States largely left the region. We just simply do not have the story of what it had done, or was planning to do. Once the United States was gone, the next step would have been to have intimidated the regimes in Arabia to acknowledge his hegemony, in order to have gained effective control of the oil wealth in the region. At that point, stockpiles in conventional delivery systems would become relevant. By the way, if he had nothing to hide, why behave in a way guaranteed to precipitate a war with the United States?