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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (273512)	1/25/2010 8:35:59 PM
From: Hawkmoon	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

didn't realize I was right but it was obvious [to me anyway, like the absence of WMDs in Iraq To this day I remain upset that the Bush administration didn't "sell" the overthrow of Saddam based upon simple basics, rather than creating so much hype over WMDs. We had the Casus Belli primarily due to Saddam's decision to halt cooperation with the UNSCOM inspectors. Had Clinton not been dealing with "Monicagate" at that time, Operation Desert Fox would likely have turned into the operation that overthrew that regime. But we DID have considerable intel that Saddam was hiding something. A lot of it might have been disinformation by his regime to thwart any actions by Iran, but it was irrelevant because he was on "probation". Furthermore, what we discovered POST-FACTO to the invasion was more than sufficient to justify his ouster. Hawk