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To: bentway who wrote (221636)	2/27/2007 10:34:26 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 281500

Like, if we'd continued our sanctions against Iraq instead of invading. But it's hard to imagine it would have been WORSE than the totally fubar cock-up we're in NOW. No, it's rather easy to image a worse situation - Saddam Hussein, free of sanctions, leader of the Arab League, and having obtaied nukes from AQ Khan and North Korea. He then could continue his subsidies of Abu Sayyef and AQ on a grander scale, and reinvade Kuwait at his leisure, knowing that we would not risk a nuclear exchange to save Kuwait again. Not only was this a possible scenario, it was a highly probable result of trends existing in 2002.