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To: Neocon who wrote (149832)	10/29/2004 3:41:23 PM
From: Michael Watkins	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

We differ on the long term significance of the sanctions busting, and on the good faith mistakes in the intelligence, so I suppose it is inevitable that we differ on this. It changes nothing: he was perceived as a strategic threat during the Clinton Administration, and a threat even more dire after 9/11........ This is just so much BS. Some of jallen's cattle is roaming around here GST. Fact: Armed with the Intel that the administration was using to justify the war in the first place -- Rumsfeld tried everything in his power to force his military to conduct the war with only 50,000 troops. Reality: No one, not even the US Military, attacks a nation of 20 million people if they seriously believe that the "enemy" is at all capable of invading other nearby countries. Reality: Saddam was never a threat and the historical record shows the inconsistencies which will, along with hard evidence, be used to prosecute people like Rumsfeld and Bush. If not in a court - in the court of public opinion. On a humorous note: The Rise and Fall of the Neocon Empire is about to see the closing act (the fall...) take place.