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To: GST who wrote (139031)7/7/2004 7:32:01 AM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Weapons inspectors only got cooperation when we flexed our muscles and scared the regime into compliance. Even Blix acknowledged that US threats made a crucial difference in getting cooperation. and if the disarmament occurred, it was because of a containment policy which we enforced, not inspections. As for the threat, as Clinton has said, the intelligence Bush got was similar to that which he had gotten. There is no reason to believe that anyone was acting in bad faith. For the rest, well, if you want to defend the continuation of Saddam's regime, be my guest......



To: GST who wrote (139031)7/7/2004 12:08:14 PM
From: Noel de Leon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
"Weapons inspectors did a masterful and heroic job of disarming Iraq -- the US merely rolled in the tanks and crushed a feeble government ...."

Which is one of many reasons why it will be difficult to get North Korea to give up its WMDs.


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