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To: epicure who wrote (139287)	7/8/2004 10:46:32 AM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Crazy or not, Saddam had a history of reckeless disregard for the conventional manner in which foreign relations are conducted. He had a history of endangering the West's vital security and economic interests under circumstances which he knew or should have known could not be supported because he did not have the military capability to withstand the obviously forthcoming military response. Not only was he crazy, IMO he was also strategically stupid. Immensely dangerous for that reason, a loose cannon. He was reckless and dangerous and had to go. The world is a better place for his absence. We no longer have to worry about him arming himself with purchased nuclear weapons and doing again what he intended, this time with the military muscle to back up his reckless adventurism. As far, as the point that Saddam was not crazy, it's really irrelevant. He undoubtedly thought that his risk calculus was throughly rational and sane. Perhaps from his own provincial standpoint, it was. However, his actions on the world stage were insane. And it's the actions which define the man. Got to go for a week. You can have the last word. So far, you haven't been too convincing.