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To: TigerPaw who wrote (21826)	10/12/2004 2:23:06 PM
From: Bruce L	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23153

Welcome Tiger Paw: Re: Uday Hussain and Keeping Saddam in a Box It's always good for a thread to acquire new thinkers. But I have some questions for you: 1. Are you seriously equating Uday with Baashar Assad? 2. How do you deal with the finding of the Duelfer Report to the effect that at the time of the invasion Saddam was "in striking distance" of breaking the sanctions? 3. I have made the observation that Saddam , while he HAD in late 2002 allowed the UN inspectors back in, it had only been in response to a massive military buildup. In an ideal world, if Saddam reneged on his promises and ordered the inspectors out, we would have begun the buildup again. But in the real world, it wouldn't have been easy, given Saddam's active attempt to bribe France, Germany and Russia; nor would it have been cheap. Duelfer concluded that it was always Saddam's intention to rebuild his WMDs when the World rew tired of this charade. How do you respond to this? 4. It is easy to say that Saddam could have been kept in a box. But the French thinker Llosa - who I quoted here yesterday (http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=20628423) - concluded that Saddam was so brutal in his treatment of the Iraqi People that this WAS one of those exceptional situations where invasion was justified. How do you justify leaving the Iraqi People in Saddam's clutches? 5. You state that the "invasion only made matters worse." I would like to hear you elaborate a little on that conclusion. Bruce