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To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (130521)	4/29/2004 10:48:43 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

That is impossible to know. It depends on the manner of leaving. It may be followed by continued chaos and lawlessness. or it may be followed by the emergence of a dictator. Oh... so you believe we should exchange one dictator for another, eh? What about an Islamic state? But what "flavor" will it be? Shiite or Sunni? Why not just civil war? The US has already caused a catastrophe for the Iraqi people. My my... nd here I thought the 300,000 some odd Iraqis that were massacred by Saddam's regime was the catastrophe.. Boy, am I glad you set me straight on that... The US can stop now, or it can keep on making midnight raids to kidnap people out of their homes to be imprisoned, and sometimes tortured and killed. What's the difference if the US raids them at night, or a dictatorial regime does it? And we're not exactly in the habit of detaining people whom we don't believe have had a role in the insurgency.. Like attacking and killing thousands of un-armed civilians in iraq over his imaginary wmd's. Just Bush? Funny.. Blix seem pretty convinced of it as well.. And Saddam certainly loved trying to create that ambiguity... Maybe we should have just overthown him back in 1991 as a punishment for invading Kuwait? After all, regardless of the actual number of WMDs we actually found, the cease fire accord DEMANDED that Iraq FULLY COMPLY with all disarmament demands and satisfy the UN inspection teams.. What was NOT imaginary was Saddam's continued willingness to keep the issue of WMD's open to interpretation and speculation.. Btw, do you think it was worth killing 80,000 Iraqis to liberate Kuwait? Hawk