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To: Ilaine who wrote (127219)	3/23/2004 5:08:34 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 281500

You have a very good perspective on it. Consciousness of these kinds of proliferation issues was just beginning to form. To expect those operating in the context of 1980 or so too have the perspective of 20 years or more later is goofy. At the time, militant Shi'ism seemed the bigger threat, and proliferation of WMDs meant nukes. At the time, it was more worrisome that Saddam was drifting into making Iraq a client state of the Soviets than that it was Ba'athist, because we knew little about the ideology or Saddam's twists on it. At the time, a modernizing and secular state appeared to us to be somewhat moderate. ETC........