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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (136128)	6/10/2004 12:27:41 AM
From: Eashoa' M'sheekha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Israel Would Have NUKED THE BEGEEZUS Out OF The ME. And would do it today if it thought there was a threat. The Biggest threat to the World is indeed Israel. 500 nukes..and counting. Mounted on subs,mobile units, aircraft and silos. Positioned to obliterate the entire area of 2000 miles range if they ever think the state is in danger. It used to be called M.A.D....when two sides had the option. It is now referred to as S.A.D. in the ME. S_ometime Assured Destruction. Wanna pick a date? KC

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (136128)	6/10/2004 2:49:04 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

Israel would have removed a threat to Israel if the Israeli intelligence had indicated such. If they could find a target to bomb, and if they thought it was worth risking a war, they might send a bombing raid, as they did with Osirak in 1981. The notion that Israel could just "remove Saddam" is absolutely lunatic. The US, which did consider Saddam a major headache and threat to its interests in the region, could not "remove Saddam" short of an invasion - it certainly tried other methods, such as Gulf War I (the Saudis promised it would topple Saddam), and covert operations, which all failed. To not be able to distinguish between "removing a threat" in the rare care when a bombing raid can do it, and it's worth risking a war to do, and just being able to "remove" the regime, is to argue like a child. Did Israeli intelligence perceive Iraq as a WMD threat? Yes, certainly. The Israelis knew that Saddam had chemical weapons (no sane person assumed he'd just given them up), and was opening funding and supplying the Palestinian suicide bombers. They worried all the time about a chemical suicide attack - but they did not have the means to stop it, they could only work on shutting down the terrorist networks in territory they could reach.