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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (159541)	3/24/2005 1:53:08 AM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The sanctions were a travesty. The problem with Iraq is that we were not paying the proper attention to the situation. Clinton is responsible for that. I don't think that most Americans knew the impact of the sanctions on the people. I didn't. But the heavy hand of war...the poor planning...the abandonment of diplomacy...the alienation of our allies...The fact that Saddam was a paper tiger...leaves only one conclusion, and that is that we over reacted to the situation. Yes we needed to act...we installed Saddam and bear responsibility for him even being in power in the first place. We needed to help the Iraqi people. But we killed too many of them trying to do that...and that is a travesty as well. Orca