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To: carranza2 who wrote (24996)	1/18/2004 1:32:21 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 793781

This is one of the very few times I think I can agree with the proposition that the ends justified the means, though I respect anyone who holds a contrary opinion. It's that close, in my view. A matter of trust, in the final analysis. I think the Administration believed the arguments it was putting forth. If they can be faulted, it's as Pollack faults them, for reading the available evidence through too strong an ideological filter. They certainly believed 100% that lots of WMDs would be found in Iraq, or they would never have agreed to push WMDs as their primary argument.

To: carranza2 who wrote (24996)	1/18/2004 1:59:09 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793781

This uncertainty, along with other considerations, made Saddam terribly dangerous Not to us. He still had to get that material into a bomb and blow it up on our soil to be terribly dangerous to us, at least short term. Was the justification for the war oversold? Yes. Are we and the Iraqis better off now that Saddam is gone? Yes. Does the overselling of the war justify the presumably salutary good result? I think so, but this is a judgment people have to make for themselves. I agree with you on the first two points. I'm still struggling with the third. Unlike you, I don't presume a good result and, even if I did, I don't know that it would justify the way it was done. It might be that this was the right war done clumsily and for the wrong reasons. Or it might be that it was wrong on all counts. I haven't yet decided. I respect anyone who holds a contrary opinion. I respect anyone who is thoughtful and civil about his opinions regardless of how contrary they may or may not be. <g>