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To: Michael Watkins who wrote (149420)	10/27/2004 4:49:46 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 281500

I consider a sanctions regime where Saddam is capable of diverting billions of dollars to his own use, instead of humanitarian purposes, and which is increasingly buying support from foreign organizations and individuals to be a failure, although it had not fully fallen apart yet. I have little doubt of the ultimate failure of containment, and you have never made a case that impressed me of the alternative. The best you can say is that containment might not have failed, not that it would not. But I think the ability to corrupt the UN already pointed the way to the withdrawal of the sanctions regime, and containment could not work if the oil embargo was not honored by other states.