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To: epicure who wrote (237598)	7/24/2007 12:04:00 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

You can say that he didn't hide money in Syria, but seeing as how much money is missing, it seems a rational thing to suggest Never said Saddam didn't move money; I'm sure he did; just that lots of the money stayed in Iraq with Saddam. I'm sure he moved all kinds of valuable and portable goods, both to supply himself and his men in Syria and to pay for his welcome. Valuable and portable goods include cash, jewels, artwork, drugs, electronics and weapons, esp. controlled weapons that Syria could not buy on the open market. It is very reasonable to assume that there is lots of interesting stuff tucked into Syria at the moment. And never mind what Hamas and Hizbullah have at their Damascus headquarters. He made some miscalculations about the US, but he was trying to be logical; he simply didn't know the US very well. He thought bluffing the US would work the same as his bluffs in the ME. Sadly, that was a miscalculation, but it was rational given that he did not understand the US. It was the last on a serial list of Saddam's miscalculations. Why do you say "sadly"? Were you rooting for Saddam's bluff to work?