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To: tejek who wrote (480665)	5/14/2009 11:57:48 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574637

>> Nonetheless, Saddam was contained. He was going nowhere. Exactly. Even though the policy of our government -- including during the Clinton administration, was "regime change", he was going nowhere. He would have continued to play cat-and-mouse with us from now on, and his sadist sons after him. You guys are so two-faced. You're constantly claiming that "torture" is a recruitment tool, when in fact, the big recruitment tool was what was going on in Iraq.

To: tejek who wrote (480665)	5/14/2009 12:06:57 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574637

"Nonetheless, Saddam was contained. He was going nowhere." He was going nowhere for the moment but he had good reason to remain cocky and defiant. He was building alliances and was gradually whittling the sanctions to the fine point of pointlessness. Only if you foolishly believe geopolitics of the world are unchangeable, could you think the resources needed to keep him contained him were indefatigable or that they would be supported until the end of time. And then you have to ask yourself if containing him in this fashion was as Albright stated it was 'worth it.'