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To: Neocon who wrote (116146)	10/3/2003 4:55:15 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

We didn't have to "resolve the matter" either when we resolved it or in the way we resolved it. And the infrastructure business is wildly exaggerated, according to someone I know who was there both before and after the war. The power and water were both adequate in most parts of the country, especially the cities of course. Some damage was done during the war and some after, which certainly complicated things, but that's war--it complicates everything unless there is a scorched earth policy when everything gets wiped out. The tenability of containment wasn't in doubt. But you're right about Saddam's sons, as far as I can see they were far worse than he was, especially the one. I don't know if they would have retained power or not, maybe, but that isn't the issue. The neocons believed that now was the time to go to war against Iraq, opponents believe that now was the time to focus on dismantling Al Qaeda and maintaining world unity in the face of it.