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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (10672)	3/30/2004 12:16:18 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 81568

The timing of Kaddafi's 360 is just a coincidence, huh. Sure, he suddenly decides to abandon his WMD programs for economic reasons only and his decision had nothing to do with seeing Iraq targeted over WMD's and being caught by the PSI. Now how to explain that statement to Berlusconi where he said he was afraid because of what happened to Iraq? Really tough to explain that - you'd better deny it all together - just say it's American propaganda. Yeah, that's the ticket. John O'Sullivan argues that the Bush doctrine of preemption and the invasion of Iraq helped secure Muammar Khadafy's capitulation on nuclear weapons development. First, the timing. Gadhafi approached the British to open talks on this one week before the invasion of Iraq when it was plain that Saddam was about to fall over WMDs. He hurried the announcement after Saddam was captured. At the very least, this behavior makes it look as if he was afraid of suffering the same fate. Second, there actually was military intervention against Libya -- and Gadhafi remained silent about it. A U.S.-led coalition halted Libyan ships containing WMD contraband on the high seas under the president's Proliferation Security Initiative. That told the Libyan that the United States knew a great deal about his WMD programs and was prepared to halt them by military means if necessary. Third, Gadhafi obligingly told Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi that after the invasion of Iraq he was afraid of the United States. parapundit.com