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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: anyer who wrote (20918)	12/16/1998 10:24:00 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

My guess is that Saddam is playing Bill Clinton for the whole shooting match. Saddam can react best with no military response. Another one sided attack on Muslims, minding there own business, by the decadent leader of the western powers. The Arab and Non Arab Muslim nations withdrew their support long ago with concern for the innocent starving villagers of Iraq. The Western nations have pulled back, some outspoken against it, some with a wait and see posture. Saddam has the opportunity to be martyred for the whole world to see at our expense. Clinton is unsupported by other nations, the UN and even the American people will disown him if it goes bad. Clinton will find himself without defense and our country with no vehicle to speak on its behalf. It doesn't take a genious to see this one played out in the world media. I'm not a fortune teller, but with Ramadan starting on Monday, Saddam has every opportunity to play it just this way.

To: anyer who wrote (20918)	12/16/1998 10:29:00 PM
From: jbe	Respond to of 67261

Anyer, I think Iraq might very well respond. But for the time being, it might just be content to sit back and get the benefits of world sympathy -- including sympathy from at least two members of the Security Council and the Secretary General of the United Nations... Frankly, however, I think your parallel with Germany in the '30's is totally off base. The fact is that American Presidents, historically, have had a penchant for playing the Lone Cowboy. It's a fine old American tradition (note the sarcasm, please). Grenada; the Panama War; the bombing of Libya, were all Lone Cowboy operations. Ironically, the Persian Gulf War was NOT a Lone Cowboy operation. Yet, as I have noted elsewhere, Bush opted NOT to carry that operation to its ultimate (and logical) conclusion -- the removal of Saddam. He left that to Clinton. Now, of course, there is no coalition left. And so, the Lone Cowboy rides again (with the Brits playing the part of Tonto). jbe