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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (221296)	2/26/2007 8:56:50 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Respond to of 281500

"No war, and sanctions and no-fly zones would have ended, and Saddam would have triumphed. It's just so obvious." Wouldn't that triumph have been a bitch? Why even now he might be killing radical Islamicists, might be trying to hold Iraq together and might still be acting as a road bump to Iranian domination of Iraq's major oil fields. Of course he might also be sending those drones to the coast to kill us wholesale, or cooperating with his ancient secular enemies or, horror of horrors, thinking about putting together a nuclear bomb that he wouldn't dare use against anyone because, hey, we knew where he lived and we're the real WMD threats. Now, aren't we? Nadine, when you do your Chicken Little impersonation, you might want to keep in mind that reasonable people actually weigh the threatened harm instead of running around in a panic screaming about falling skies. But now that things are so "fixed" in Iraq you must be proud of where your cure has led America and the world...too bad about the dead. Ed

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (221296)	2/26/2007 8:57:01 PM
From: Win Smith	Respond to of 281500

Yes, containment only worked for 40 years or so during the cold war. But since W decided he had to have a war in Iraq, I suppose it's true that nothing else was possible. Thing is, outside of the looking glass world of W suckups, Saddam mostly looked like an over-the-hill despot circa 2003, hemmed in by hostile neighbors. You'd have to be extremely imaginative to see him as the new Caliph, but the Mylroie and the neocon hardcore were obviously nothing if not extremely imaginative.