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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (12218)	2/15/2006 8:44:49 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540881

N. Korea has a dictator who is starving his people. Why don't we attack his country. Because the attempt would cause a lot more death and destruction than invading Iraq did. North Korea apparently has nukes, and even without the nukes they could reign destruction with conventional and chemical weapons down on Seoul. If we could depose the communist regime in North Korea with no more difficulty or destruction than what has happened in Iraq, and if we could quickly bring North Korea up to Iraq's living standards (which are bad by American standards but far above North Korea's even with the legacy of Saddam and the ongoing fighting) than I would support doing it. But if the you assume nearly impossible things just about anything could be justified... Tim

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (12218)	2/15/2006 9:10:25 PM
From: Sdgla	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540881

<You have to distinguish between a terrorist who strikes terror in the US like Osama did and someone like Saddam or any other dictator who is a dictator in his own country. > OK. Osama has an organization that seeds terrorism in order to promote/implement his version of Islam over all other religions or forms of government at any cost. Saddam did the same...... exterminating all opposition within his reach into prisons or mass graves.... paying the families of homicide bombers that blew themselves up in Israel... collecting billions of $$'s from the UN via the oil for food program while ignoring 10 years of sanctions and no fly zones. No doubt the dictator in N. Korea is all you say and more, however, I do not see where the diplomatic route has reached the same block wall that Saddam's had. Having made that distinction, how would you have handled Saddams total disregard for the UN sanctions/no fly zones and the world communities determination that he had WMD ?