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To: Lane3 who wrote (120624)	6/17/2005 3:34:19 PM
From: Bernard Guerrero	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793911

I posted this elsewhere as an entry into an ongoing argument, but it seems appropo in this context: RESOLVED a) Ba'athist Iraq was virulently and violently anti-American in both rhetoric and action. b) Ba'athist Iraq had massive military potential with regards to U.S. interests on the basis of population, free cash flow and geography. c) Ba'athist Iraq was capable, on a technical and resource basis (see aforementioned cash flow and reserves) of developing WMD on a less than geological time-scale, and had demonstrated proclivities in that direction previously. d) Given 9/11, we were quite aware that other virulently anti-American groups might be happy to use such a device against us directly even if Iraq proved to be reluctant. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend". e) Pressure was building from other interested states to lower the level of pressure on Ba'athist Iraq in the near term, blithely ignoring (or simply not caring about) a) through d). f) Ba'athist Iraq needed to be wiped off the map, post-haste.