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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (119051)	11/9/2003 5:28:25 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 281500

Washington dismissed Iraq's peace feelers guardian.co.uk <<...In the few weeks before its fall, Iraq's Ba'athist regime made a series of increasingly desperate peace offers to Washington, promising to hold elections and even to allow US troops to search for banned weapons. But the advances were all rejected by the Bush administration, according to intermediaries involved in the talks...>>

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (119051)	11/10/2003 5:12:01 AM
From: frankw1900	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

In other words, if you can show me why we do not invade so many other monsterous dictatorship and what made Iraqis so special to be worthy of our massive and very expensive "rescue" attempt, then you could win me over. Because your country's interests are more at stake in the ME than elsewhere and of all the enemies in the ME the Iraq regime was the most pernicious and because Iraq is strategically in the right place and if you're going to drain the ME terrorism breeding swamp by inoculating it with democracy, Iraq is a good place to start because it's a significant coountry and because you can't do it to Saudi Arabia directly because Mecca is there and because it will destabilize the Iranian mullocracy and... You gotta start somewhere and there's more bang for the buck with Iraq than say, N Korea, where you have to have the permission of the upcoming super power that lives next door and whose responsibility it really is and same goes for Pakistan which might still be redeemable though I doubt it and the Iranian mullocracy is kinda shaky anyway compared to how Saddam was, and your country is more endangered by the ME dysfunction than say, Zimbabwe's. And as they say in real estate, location, location, location. frank@mixthemmetaphorstotethatbarge.com