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To: GST who wrote (113080)	8/27/2003 5:09:36 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I agree completely -- they had a really tough job to do and did it extremely well under very tough conditions. They didn't do it. They left. They themselves said they didn't do it. Oh never mind. Why do I waste my time?

To: GST who wrote (113080)	8/27/2003 9:30:09 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

..we pointedly insulted the inspectors and denegraded them at every opportunity, declared ourselves to be unilateralist as a matter of policy, .. What are you talking about? American support, including explicit military threat, was the only reason inspectors ever got into Iraq. We did everything we could to assist and enable them to do their job. Except give Iraq an unlimited amount of time to resist inspections and a complete accounting. As it was they got more than 12 years. The final showdown with Saddam should have happened in 1998. The Clinton administration knew it but was too inept to get the job done. “The hard fact is that so long as Saddam remains in power, he threatens the well-being of his people, the peace of the region, the security of the world.” Bill Clinton 1998 Name a prominent member of the Clinton administration or Democratic Congressional leader and I'm pretty sure I can find similar quotes from them all. Regime change has been American policy on Iraq since 1998. That was the year the Iraq Liberation Act was passed - 202 Republicans and 157 Democrats voted for it in Congress.