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To: D. Long who wrote (7130)	5/7/1999 3:52:00 AM
From: Andy Thomas	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

RE: UN Security Council advocating go-ahead for military action: >> How much safer and clear cut an example of aggression can be found than Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.<< We could have let Sadam have the country. I'm sure he would have still sold us oil. I feel sorry for the Shi'ites in Basra and the Kurds in the North. I'm sure by now neither group is friends of the US. That campaign was a joke from a purely military standpoint in that it failed to destroy the main enemy army when that army was clearly in the grasp of the Allied forces. If loss of life were at that point the issue then they could have taken the whole republican guards prisoner and made them POWs. Once again political expedience - combined with a lack of stomach on the part of the "heroes" of the war - kept the military from accomplishing what would have been its mission in a war outside of power politics - the destruction of the Replican guard. This would have ceded Basra to Iran and led to an intensification of Kurdish rebel efforts in Iran, Turkey, and Iraq itself. Obviously Bush and company never wanted these events to transpire, so they made sure Sadam stayed in power. Sadam has ever since proven to be a useful bogeyman every time the president or the media need something to talk about. The non-destruction of the republican guard and Iraq's continuing as a cohesive state were critically linked. The entire affair just shows how completely insane everything has gotten in the middle east. I doubt there is much our politicians and corporations will be willing to do in order to bring a lasting resolution to the region. Instead it will be a festering open wound of conflaguration on the skin of world events for the forseeable future. FWIW Andy