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To: GST who wrote (155487)	1/7/2005 11:32:03 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

As I have already explained, the primary threat to the US was through surrogates, namely, terrorist organizations. No, there was no imminent known threat. But there was the enduring level of hostility towards the United Staes that Saddam showed, the obvious desire to destabilize the Middle East against US interests, and genocidal intent towards the Kurds, the Israelis, and even possibly the Shi'iah. In this context, conflict with the US was inevitable, and the main threat was to attempt to drive us out of the region through terorist outrages that could not be pinned on Iraq. That symbiosis seemed to our policymakers inevitable and, after 9/11, much more threatening.