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To: michael97123 who wrote (147382)	10/8/2004 11:20:23 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

It was the way we went about things that has had SO MANY unintended consequences...IMO, we could have continued with 'Vigilant Containment' of Saddam and ramped up our efforts to covertly engineer a coup (it sure would not have cost thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of our tax dollars)...Many foreign policy experts believe that The Bush Administration has become distracted from "the real war on terror" while we hyper-focus on Iraq...Independent groups have also concluded that by pre-emptively invading Iraq we have actually fueled more terrorism. -s2@ReaganWouldHavePlayedABetterChessGameThanBushHas.com

To: michael97123 who wrote (147382)	10/8/2004 12:57:35 PM
From: Michael Watkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

You are buying into the continually shifting justification that Bush is offering. First - Saddam may have links to Al Qa'ida Second - Saddam HAS chemical and biological WMD Third - Saddam HAS the capability to produce Nuclear WMD - war - Forth - No firm links to Al Qa'ida but now that we've messed it up there are tons of foreign terrorists in the country so NOW its the Center of the War On Terror (tm) Fifth - Fake reports justify in part case on WMD but he's still a Brutal Dictator (tm) (true no doubt...) Sixth - Turns out he had nothing, but its still the central front on the war on terror. It is because we made it so. Seventh, new tactic, when sanctions are lifted Saddam would have gone back to his old ways. Well, who here believes that sanctions would be lifted without having an international group of weapons inspectors on the ground full time in Iraq? Raise your hands? Anyone? Anyone? No? Of course the world community would not let Saddam get back to his old ways. Containment and inspections were working until Bush rattled the sabres too loudly and the recent CIA report proves this, as do all the other reports from the UN. Containment and inspections were in Iraq's future for as long as Saddam, or someone like him, remained in power. Much cheaper, by the way, than declaring war and botching the job.