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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (47018)	10/10/2004 6:07:34 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Saddam quandry <<While the U.S. was fixated on Saddam's threat, he focused on his strategies for Iran and considered WMD essential to keeping his neighbor in check. So he was driven by what the report calls "a difficult balancing act": getting rid of his WMD to win relief from the sanctions while pretending he still had them to serve as a strategic deterrent. "The regime never resolved the contradiction inherent in this approach," says the report. Saddam privately told an aide the "better part of war was deceiving," but ironically he was telling the West the truth. In the end, his big bluff destroyed him—and drew the U.S. into an engagement that will help determine George W. Bush's fate at the polls next month. >> Times..