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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (188093)	6/2/2006 4:28:33 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Nadine, do you really believe: the highest probability for Iraq was Saddam getting rid of sanctions entirely an end to containment, an end to the no-fly zones (which were done unilaterally w/o UN approval, btw), that meant invading something. Once the no-fly zones were removed, the only question was which direction, Shia or Kurd? Probably Kurd, And all his scientists would have been digging up their rose gardens for the stuff they buried under instructions. *So another 50,000 or so would probably have died in the ensuing suppression of Kurdistan. So much belief, so little to base it on. Wmds hidden in the weeds, intent, no restrictions, the rest of the world a paper tiger and Saddam Hussein suddenly growing to the monster in the closet proportions. Forgive me if I doubt your sources. Saddam was brutal but he wasn't retarded enough to think the world was going to allow him to invade anyone. There were no dangerous wmds and there wasn't any program. The US was watching like a hawk and waiting for any excuse to invade, as we now know beyond a doubt. And the 50,000 dead will be pimple on the ass of the corpse that lies stinking and rotten when we are finished with our "help" of the Iraqi people. It's not enough to attempt to justify the Iraq war through postulating cleverly conceived, nightmarish scenarios that stretch common sense. this is especially true when we have a reality that is probably about as bad as anything you could have imagined. Ed