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To: Lane3 who wrote (148773)	11/26/2005 9:53:04 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793670

the seeding-democracy rationale...... Hard to tell in retrospect This was always the major one with me. It's Barnett's also, although he puts economics first and democracy second. He has bought the Chinese argument that "it's 90% economics and 10% politics." We are out to stop attacks on us. The problem in assessing our success at this is that we can never know if we did.

To: Lane3 who wrote (148773)	11/26/2005 1:45:41 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 793670

Before the war in Iraq I looked at the reports of what saddam had done and was doing. I looked how he was using the resources of Iraq. I saw a country of hugh area where no one was really in charge. A place where boonies existed, some bordering Iran and all nature of individual were free to do as the wished in stealth and secure in isolation. America had no way to legally interdict in these area and had no real power to compel saddam to be in control or held responsible. If you will not invade, you have no real power. How non-existent American power or threat was is obvious from the fact saddam would shoot at Americans flying over Iraq at every occasion. Why did saddam think he had this power to ignore the UN and America. I figure all those Germans, French and Russians whose honor he had compromised were telling him, NO WORRY. That we know clearly now from Oil for Food. The dangers to America directly and Americans all over the world were from layers of complex threats. After thinking about it and finding the absolute worse reason to allow the fester of Iraq to continue was that it could free Iraqis, it was obvious that Iraq had be secured and the people freed. Living Americans are more important to me than free non Americans. I don't understand any other rationale. It does not matter to me others were and are blind to the dangers and think themselves freeing Iraqis is a wonderful end in itself.