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To: spiral3 who wrote (106102)	7/17/2003 5:50:25 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

The main operational proof that the intelligence was sound was the conduct of the war. Yes, there were some surprises, but we basically met the timetable, and the opposition in most areas collapsed as anticipated. The red line around Baghdad was where it was most likely that chemical weapons would be used if he were going to do it. If we could bomb North Korea without disaster, yes. It seems that the action is being reviewed, isn't it? That is the nature of our system. As for the rape charge, there is a difference between how one behaves when there is a chance to examine the matter cooly, and how one behaves when there is an existential threat. Of course a threatening program was not buried in the backyard. I do not think that Saddam was blinking, I think that he was making certain concessions prior to another round of foot dragging. I never thought that Saddam would directly attack US forces, so it does not perplex me. We would have hit back to hard, and he knew that. I always thought he would use his forces on neighbors, mostly for blackmail, and that he would use terrorist proxies against the United States. By the way, he deserved to be overthrown for what he continued to do to the people of Iraq, not just for "what he had done in the past".........