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To: Brumar89 who wrote (108426)	7/28/2003 3:12:04 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi Brumar89; Re: "Does any war opponent have an alternative course of action which would have gotten rid of Saddam's reign of terror over Iraq? Note - I'm looking only for real world present day ideas - not make-believe fantasies which would require going back in time decades to implement. No alternate history scenarios in other words." The default course of action would have been to do "nothing", that is, maybe someday end sanctions, but to continue inspections. Eventually something would happen to Saddam, just like something happened to so many other dictators. Another alternative course of action would have been to make a big deal out of Saddam's nasty regime (rather than the no longer existent WMDs), and get a collection of soldiers (including some from Arab states) to go in. Instead of doing that up front, Bush is left having to beg for help from the UN. This whole line of argument "which would have gotten rid of Saddam's reign of terror over Iraq" ignores the fact that before the invasion of Kuwait, Saddam's Iraq was a US ally. And at that time he was already a vicious dictator who had started a stupid war (against Iran) and had already used WMDs against his own people. It's only when the conservatives are running around trying to justify the Iraq fiasco that all of a sudden their little hearts start thumping about all those pitiful Iraqi women and children (that US sanctions did so much damage to, and are even now encouraging their menfolk to kill our soldiers in revenge for the Iraqis that the US has killed over the past 12 years). -- Carl