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To: Neocon who wrote (116516)	10/11/2003 12:26:09 AM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

North Korea has nuclear reactors and proven intercontinental missile capability -- we know both of these things for a fact. Iraq had neither reactors nor intercontinental missile capability and we also knew with a very high degree of certainty. The invasion of Iraq was a political con job, pure and simple. I have been concerned with WMD proliferation for years. Iraq was contained, largely disarmed of nonconventional weapons and posed no WMD threat at all. North Korea is neither disarmed nor contained -- quite the opposite -- and poses a huge threat to the US. If the ideologues who snowed the American people into thinking that Iraq posed a threat were serious about either al Qaida or WMD, there are plenty of things, places and people to worry about, but not in Iraq. Invading Iraq was the most misguided option for use of our military capability available to us, and Iraq would not have been invaded by us unilaterally if our focus was on national security. The use of our military for ideological purposed divorced from national security is reckless and harmful. It also leaves us more vulnerable, isolated and it lowers our standing as a world leader. By allowing fantasy and ideology to be determining factors in shaping our foreign policy, we have been led hapharzardly into one of the most costly foreign policy blunders -- and arguably the most costly foreign policy blunder -- that this nation has ever seen.