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To: paret who wrote (176792)12/2/2005 10:24:29 AM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
I wish you could stop concocting such silly fantasies.



To: paret who wrote (176792)12/2/2005 11:16:57 AM
From: michael97123  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
So why do cons tolerate Mugabe, mullahs in iran, north korea regime, sudan atrocities and so on. Lets be real. Saddam was considered low hanging fruit and we easily won the war. What we didnt count on was post war. The others arent so easy or in a critical area like the mideasat or involved with oil. We should treat these issues as grownups.
Personally i think history will judge removal of saddam as important. Whether it ultimately improves things much is debatable at this point. The collapse of the Soviet Union was a great thing but it has made the world more complicated for both russia and the US. Doesnt mean we should reconstitute USSR or saddam for that matter. mike



To: paret who wrote (176792)12/2/2005 1:51:24 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
I think your characterization was pretty accurate. Saddam was either going to stay in power or we were going to remove him - the real world offered those choices. If a person isn't for one, then defacto they are for the other, whether they like to admit or not.