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To: TimF who wrote (69850)	1/12/2009 11:57:13 PM
From: JF Quinnelly	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Saddam presented no threat to the United States. A threat to Iraqis and his weakest neighbors, but no one else. The Israelis bombed his reactor into rubble back in the early 80s and he did nothing to strike back. That wasn't the mark of dangerous military adventurer, that was a sign that he was afraid to strike at someone who might obliterate him. Moreover he wasn't an Islamic radical. Osama bin Laden even offered his services to the Saudis to drive the infidel Saddam out of Kuwait before GHW Bush committed the US in the first Gulf War. The justification for the first Gulf War was to defend access to ME oil. That's an externality.