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To: Brumar89 who wrote (4084)	12/17/2003 12:01:14 PM
From: zonder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7834

(3) Fund, train, and otherwise support Kurdish and/or Shiite groups that wish Saddam gone, so that Iraqis do their own regime change - Result: No American troop deployment, no carpet-bombing and little if any infrastructure destruction in Iraq, international cooperation stays intact, Powell doesn't look like a monkey in UN Sec. Council with aerial photos of vans claiming they are mobile bioterror labs, Bush holds on to the respect and cooperation of the world for American leadership of the free world. (4) Try the carrot approach rather than the stick - Find what Saddam wants (such as, partial lifting of the sanctions, possibly medications and sanitary chemicals like chlorine), and offer that in exchange for reinstatement of permanent UN inspectors. All this, of course, assuming that the invasion of Iraq had anything to do with the paranoia that Iraq was an aggressive threat to anyone. And this is the stuff little old me came up with in five minutes. The brains in the White House no doubt could come up with far more brilliant strategies in the many months it took to position US troops for the invasion of Iraq, during which they escalated the war rhetoric every day.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (4084)	12/17/2003 12:13:43 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Respond to of 7834

Additionally something which might solve the North Korea dilemma, a US non-agression agreement, with more UN weapon inspections, as well as lifting of the US-UK special containment, gradual normalization of international relations for Iraq. As Aziz said, Saddam would not have stayed in power for more than 3-4 years anyway. Two reasons why US had to be in such a hurry, to make sure neither one would be implemented. Were you around in terms of Iraq vs the rest of the world, UN and US, back in the 1990s?? (btw, anything one can learn from little Cuba and containment?? besides the nuclear missiles in Turkey)