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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (142066)	7/30/2004 2:00:43 PM
From: Sig	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<<so Iraq has made us safer ??? true neither in Iraq nor USA There can be no proof that Iraq has made things safer. But it made no sense to go after a small band of ill equipped Al Queda members while leaving the much more powerful Saddam and all his money, armies, aircraft and devious WMD plans to reamin an even more evil threat to the ME and to us. Iraqis neighbors probably feel a lot safer and logic tells us they are much safer with Saddams military out of commission. But even that is debatable, since we do not know what the citizens are being told. Do they fear us nore than they feared Saddam? We know we are not going to attack anyone there except perhaps Iran or Saudi Arabia. (just kidding) What I know is that neither Bush or Kerry is going to start another war in the immediate future.Several years. But do they know that? And perhaps we want them to be afraid. There is no question that if a country supports terrorists they have a special reason to be afraid. This Foreign Policy is a strange game- like a world-wide chess board. We lay out general foreign policy positions,but cannot give specific details because the other country will counter with a better move. IMO Foreign policies must be adaptable, changeable with time and circumstance, and therefore vague or generalized in presentation to the public I find it intreguing that, after Bush is trounced severely for 'starting a war' that Kerry is planning to expand the scope, add to the military,and bring in even more UN members to add to the roughly 30 Nations supporting our coalition in Iraq. <<the more sarcastic you get, the more ineffective you sound>> Lucky I'm not running for office, what? You can trace my sarcasm back to the time that they (or we) at Boeing tripled the number of nuke warheads on the MM missiles. I thought it was overkill. But The fallout (joke) was that it broke the back of the Russian economy trying to keep up. Regards Sig