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To: Michael Watkins who wrote (149848)	10/29/2004 3:59:04 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Respond to of 281500

To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not. Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)

To: Michael Watkins who wrote (149848)	10/29/2004 4:09:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

We had the capacity to wage war in a hostile biochemical environment, which most armies do not. No one thought he was going to gain regional hegemony through brute conquest, but through the use of his WMDs. Indeed, merely the threat might have achieved his primary objective of getting tribute money from the Saudis and the Emirates. And no on thought he was a direct military threat to the United States, but that he could do mischief in the course of pursuing regional hegemony, and that he could too easily use clandestine operations, whether through his own intelligence service or through surrogates (i.e. terrorists).