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To: GST who wrote (109664)	8/3/2003 6:36:38 PM
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Iraq was a serious threat growing ever more dangerous. That is well documented by many countries & international organizations. Saddam left a clear trail in the public's eye in addition to what he attempted to kept hidden. 9/11 changed everything. Given the global war on terrorism, Iraq's continued violations of UN sanctions, Saddam's ties to known terrorist groups, including his financial support, providing safe haven & training facilities for them, plus his horrific crimes against humanity; his forced removal from power was appropriate IMO. It SA seems might have been a fairly serious threat as well. Apparently that hasn't been quite clearly demonstrated like Iraq...... not unless all forms of speculation are part of one's objective reasoning. I don't think that SA & Iraq should have been treated exactly alike. Apparently the Bush Admin doesn't as well. Folks disparaged the US for failing to make use of diplomacy with Iraq (like 12+ years is too little). I don't know how much behind the scenes actions (non-diplomatic) have been taken since it has yet to be made public. The same could be said for diplomatic efforts not yet made public. I'm willing to let time & events unfold before I draw firm conclusions on SA. I don't see any benefit from participating in wild speculation about SA, let alone drawing inflexible conclusions, pointing fingers & laying blame. I simply don't have enough credible data points to draw much of a POV on SA at this time. I'll leave that to the self appointed elitists & experts that seem to be everywhere these days.