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To: Bilow who wrote (124571)	2/10/2004 12:00:32 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 281500

Bush's Iraq War Gamble Was Costly Indeed commondreams.org <<...Like any gambler, the Bush administration is unwilling to admit that it guessed wrong. Some people would have called it a good gamble. Saddam's drive for battlefield biological weapons goes back decades. He used chemical weapons in war. U.S. spies were caught off guard by how close he got in the early 1990s to a nuclear bomb. The big surprise, Kay says now, is how deeply his regime had sunk into corruption and disrepair by 2003, making even Saddam one of the victims of his own deceptions. But that does not excuse a decision to go to war based on a gamble by those who had the access and the wherewithal to know better. Sign them all up for Gamblers Anonymous, and then start repairing the damage...>>