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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SirVinny who wrote (1245)	7/21/2003 3:40:47 PM
From: rrufff	Respond to of 22250

I don't believe the WMD or Al-Queda link pushed the "man in the street". It was a "throw-in" foolishly by an administration whose PR has been awful from day 1. The average American didn't want Saddam to have WMD but "finding them" was known to be impossible and the statements by the admnistration that they would find them were truly foolish. I think even the "man in the street" knows that you can hide test tubes and nuclear fragments, etc., in small areas. Unless we dig up every inch of Iraq, there is no assurance one way or another. The man in the street supported and still supports the war given the carnage by the Saddam tyranny to the people and the fact that Saddam never complied with the terms of the ending of the first Gulf War. People were fed up by the constant monitoring and fighting and enforcing of "no-fly" zones. They also were fed up by the constant gamesmanship of first saying that they would let in inspector and then refused and then said ok over many, many years. If Saddam really had destroyed his WMD, why didn't he just say "send them all in" years ago without limitation?