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To: Sam who wrote (1893)	6/25/2007 10:32:08 AM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4152

and iraq was chose because it was supposed to be low hanging fruit. Real problem is that nadine will be right at some time and the pendelum will have swung so far the other way that we will miss an opportunity to act. And the blame for that lies more in the warriors than in the peacemakers.

To: Sam who wrote (1893)	6/25/2007 11:23:56 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4152

But action without a due consideration of the likely consequences can also be "very, very expensive in the long run." Witness Iraq, just to take one current example. True enough also. However, inaction can also be very, very expensive. How would you feel about have a sanctions-free Saddam Hussein armed with nuclear weapons obtained from AQ Khan and North Korea threatening to invade Kuwait and Saudi Arabia again and financing terrorists all over the place? France would be enjoying its sweetheart deals, and Russia would be cleaning up as Saddam drove up oil prices. Both would be enjoying their bonanza of bribes from Saddam. The US would have had to ignominiously give up the no-fly zones, so Saddam could massacre the Shia and the Kurds to his heart's content. That was the most likely outcome of inaction. Sanctions were crumbling fast as Saddam spent oil-for-food money to good effect. All one has to do to get this scenario is project the typical past behavior of Saddam, France and Russia forward in a sanctions-free environment.