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To: michael97123 who wrote (155595)	1/8/2005 4:11:59 PM
From: GST	Respond to of 281500

If the mere possession of weapons that might threaten some country other than the United States became grounds for invasion, then the list of countries we could simply invade at will would be long indeed. Iran has a nuclear program and it appears that Egypt does as well, and North Korea has nuclear weapons and long range delivery capability -- yet we invaded Iraq. If there was any threat at all it would have been to Israel. Is that the core justification of the invasion? To defend Israel against some hypothetical attack with hypothetical weapons? Is that likely to succeed -- ya, right. Is it worth a few hundred billion dollars? Is it worth tying up our military for a decade so we can deal with other far more urgent threats? Not too bloody likely. On the basis of self-defense there simply was and is no case.