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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (134573)5/27/2004 6:48:28 PM
From: dumbmoney  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 281500
 
Containment was expensive (and you were paying for it) and damn ineffective.

Actually the countries in the region paid for much of it. It was dirt cheap, and it worked better than anyone hoped.

Pop quiz: how many planes (patrolling the "no-fly zones") did Iraq shoot down?