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To: Brumar89 who wrote (147793)	10/13/2004 10:49:59 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

There was a massive PR and bribery campaign to get sanctions lifted. When that finally happened and it would have, he would be left alone. You presumably know this with the same infallible conservative certitude that knew of the existence of WMDs, pre-war. Not that it matters, W wanted a war, and he got it. There was not a little PR and bribery involved in getting his war going and the "coalition of the willing" assembled, too, of course, but that's another story. I imagine the alleged reasons will keep rotating in and out of circulation forever, as the handlers see fit. Who knows, maybe Cheney will even recycle the "Prague Connection" yet again, just for old time's sake.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (147793)	10/13/2004 11:41:53 PM
From: Don Hurst	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

>>"There was a massive PR and bribery campaign to get sanctions lifted. When that finally happened and it would have, he would be left alone."<< So you believe that the selected one would be so weak that the sanctions on his most hated enemy (the one who tried to kill daddy) would be lifted...amazing!!

To: Brumar89 who wrote (147793)	10/14/2004 1:52:02 PM
From: Michael Watkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

There was a massive PR and bribery campaign to get sanctions lifted. When that finally happened and it would have, he would be left alone. You are telling me that George Bush, post 9/11, would let that happen? Let Saddam have free reign? Man, what a weak leader that would make him. Better not vote for him. Your logic simply does not compute. 9/11 gave Bush carte blanche to force a total clean up of the Oil for Food program and ensure that a workable, verifiable, functional and world-sanctioned program of verification and containment was in place on Iraq. Forever. That better functioning program could have been used the world over. Now that would be a "Bush Doctorine" worth putting in the history books. Instead, he decided to skip doing the right thing for doing what he wanted. THAT IS NOT LEADERSHIP. The problem I have with blind followers is that they don't recognize what leadership really is.