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To: GST who wrote (105293)	7/14/2003 3:00:59 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

If we are mostly concerned about "nukes", then why did we attack Iraq instead of North Korea? For several reasons. But on the Nuke subject by itself, we know now that Clinton should have settled this before the NKs got them. We will not longer allow rogue countries to get Nukes with impunity. Unless, of course, we get someone in the WH who will not follow up on this. Watch. This issue will come up during the campaign next year, and the Democrat will waffle.

To: GST who wrote (105293)	7/14/2003 3:06:08 PM
From: Chas.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Osama bin Laden, Afaghanistan, Saddam Hussein, Iraq..... it is the measured response and message to the Arab world, specifically the radical Islamic elements of Islam that their acts of Terrorism against USA will have dire consequences.

To: GST who wrote (105293)	7/14/2003 5:10:04 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Respond to of 281500

<why did we attack Iraq instead of North Korea?> Because we could. Iraq was the easy target. Its conventional forces had been destroyed a decade ago, and not rebuilt. It had no means to inflict any significant damage to the U.S. or any of our allies. N. Korea, on the other hand, has thousands of artillery in range of S, Korea's capital, and could inflict a million+ deaths on our allies, on the opening day of Operation Korean Freedom. So, the reason they were chozen (Iraq instead of N. Korea), was precisely because they were not a threat to our national security. But the American public would only support a war, if they were convinced there was a threat. So the Administration did their Orwellian Big Lie, and made doublespeak the official language of Washington. The lesson here, for every nation on earth, is that the only effective deterrent to the U.S., is WMD. And, since the U.S. is a rogue state that will engage in wars of aggression, a militarist nation without any effective internal restraints, deterrence is necessary. The Iraq war means the death of non-proliferation.