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To: Win Smith who wrote (123046)	1/11/2004 10:02:45 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 281500

Win, one of the rules of engagement with the Ruling Class is that they will have your guts for garters if you cross them. It's just mafia stuff writ large. They see government, and businesses they work for, and everything else, as means to their ends, with none of that drippy collectivist democracy drivel of common interest and commonweal, though they might mouth the platitudes. When Saddam took the bait and invaded Kuwait and sanctions were whacked on and oil prices rose and oil industry profits entered the golden age of the 1990s thanks to the cheapest competitor being kept off the market [an excellent strategy for maintaining profits, though of course completely illegal if such a thing was done within the USA] he was a marked man. When he then joined the battle against Israel and paid suicide bombers to do their work and allegedly attempted to kill George I, Laura and co on the trip to Kuwait, it was game over for him. It was just a matter of time. 911, WMD, strategic security of oil supplies and blah blah blah were all just details or window dressing and excuses to justify what was going to happen anyway. They even have a fancy-pants name for it = Casus Belli [which is latin for "I want to sound really intelligent and reasonable and legalistic and this is a good enough excuse for me to beat your brains in because I'm the alpha male and you are going to kiss my feet". Ignominious surrender, compliance and obedience was the only way for him to have maintained power. But that wasn't his way of life so it wasn't going to happen. The hint was way back in 1990 when Saddam asked whether sanctions would be lifted if he withdrew from Kuwait. The answer was, of course, no. Because sanctions were the aim. The dreaded weapons of mass destruction had to be invented to justify UN dramas and continued inspections and sanctions. The fact that weapons of mass destruction are all over the world was an irrelevant detail. See how the cash flows and that's a good guide to why and how things happen. Mqurice PS: <Clark said he was in the Pentagon immediately after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, and heard officials joking that, "'if Saddam didn't do it, he should have, because if he didn't, we're going to get him anyway."'> That is the way they think.