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To: Rock_nj who wrote (4770)	12/24/2003 3:57:10 PM
From: Edscharp	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20039

Rock, " why the hell are we spending $160 Billion on Iraq when there are so many unmet domestic needs?" Because chaos would reign in the region if we just pulled out tomorrow. I think we do have a responsibility to the Iraqi people to help rebuild and create stability in the region. Even most of the democratic candidates seem to agree on this point.

To: Rock_nj who wrote (4770)	12/24/2003 4:14:32 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 20039

Certainly Saddam has run their country into the ground. He did not do it alone. He had tremendous assistance from the U.S. in creating a hell on earth. Recall that the U.S. has employed Saddam since 1959. He was employed to destabilize the moderate and successful Kassim government. Then in the first decade of Baath rule, Iraq prospered as never before or since under Saddam's uncle's rule. In the 1980's Saddam was nudged by the U.S. into a war with Iran because we were arrogant about our relations with the Shah and suffered "blowback". We supported Saddam throughout the 1980s. He regarded himself as a client of the U.S. government and actually asked for permission to attack Kuwait! Then Bush 41 backstabbed Saddam after raising no objections to the invasion. It was U.S. and UK sanctions, and 450,000 armed sorties by Coalition jets across Iraq in the 1990's that kept the standard of living low and the rate of preventable illness high. Saddam, in short, is absolutely nothing like what the propaganda in our media portrays him as being.