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To: carranza2 who wrote (151286)	11/8/2004 1:12:18 PM
From: Michael Watkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

In fact, the only factual example we have, Libya, tends to refute it. Now you are engaging in speculation. Libya was put under sanctions before Bush and it had been trying to re-integrate itself with the world community for many years. Libyan support for terrorism appears to have decreased after UN sanctions were imposed in 1992. During the 1990s QADHAFI also began to rebuild his relationships with Europe. UN sanctions were suspended in April 1999 and finally lifted in September 2003 after Libya resolved the Lockerbie case. In December 2003, Libya announced that it had agreed to reveal and end its programs to develop weapons of mass destruction. cia.gov Secondly, Libya agreed to settle with Pan Am 103 victim families in early 2002 - long before any decision on Iraq was made. This was after a 13 year Libya offers $2.7 billion Pan Am 103 settlement May 29, 2002 Posted: 6:59 AM EDT (1059 GMT) archives.cnn.com Part of the offer was contingent on Libya being removed from the State Department's list of states sponsoring terrorism. If Libya was to be free to operate in international business in order to earn or re-earn the hard capital needed to pay the settlement, it needed to do whatever it took to return to normal relations with the world community. Invading Iraq had nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with it. Personal anecdote: My father in law (oil biz, retired) and his family lived in Libya many years ago. My wife was conceived and almost born there but before birth her mother was rushed back to the US to be born so that many years later I could marry an American Woman rather than a Libyan!