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To: Michael Watkins who wrote (151522)	11/11/2004 3:34:55 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I am not in a mood to play word games with you. Saddam was, to the best of our knowledge, an ongoing regional threat. Yes, we were containing him, but we already knew that sanctions were eroding, and that humanitarian groups were agitating for an end to sanctions, on the grounds that diversion was allowing hundreds of thousands of children to die. Saudi Arabia had already asked us to leave our base there. There was reason to settle with Saddam before the political situation altered, and sanctions became unsustainable.