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To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (116300)	10/6/2003 8:34:48 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Respond to of 281500

> then you're one of the first people to claim that NYC is worse crime-wise than before they decided clean things up. Firstly I limited my comments to a specific case and not crime in general. And secondly even then I did not claim that NYC is worse off now than it was before. Read my fallow up post on that topic. > You've conveniently forgotten that he was offered a large sum of money to leave the country We most definitely did not do that. What Bush did, only a short while before he attacked Iraq, was to tell Saddam he will give him safe passage and allow him to take whatever sum of Iraqi people's money he can take out with him. This is very different than us offering him something in return for his policing of AQ. > I don't see that it was really our job to do something about that regime in Iraq which has been a thorn in the side of the entire region for 30 years. I agree. > Iraq had been a threat to other Arabs more than anything else. Again, I agree. > By any moral logic, the civilized world should be content to get rid of any criminal regime like that. Not if they fear the cure is worse than the disease. > It's more than possible for things to turn out better in Iraq than if Hussein and his family had been left in power I am not so sure. But I don't think it is a total disaster either. I put the odds somewhere around 30:70.