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To: stockman_scott who wrote (122979)	1/10/2004 2:08:41 AM
From: Sig	Respond to of 281500

<<<<...Is it not the Bush administration’s impatience with a working multilateral solution to the problem of containing Iraq that "failed" America in the clutch? >>> There was a problem with 'containing' Iraq when Saddam continued to add to his forces and capabilities. Note here that although Saddam and others said his WMD's efforts ended in 1991 that the UN found WMD's and continued work on WMD's in 1995 cdiss.org The greatest effort was in increasing missile ranges-work which continued into 2003 So what good does "containment" do when Saddam continued his work and builds missiles capable of reaching most of his neighbors?. Perhaps our containment work would then have involved surrounding Iraq with Patriot sites , in countries that dont like us , and a very expensive system of questionable effectiveness. Was any other Nation, among our friends, and other than the UK , intending to fund or help with the containment of Iraq- a job that would have become bigger as each year passed? Sig Containment- about as well defined and effective as Al Gore's lock-box concept would have been