From: "Robert G Lewis" 

Hey it was in the 80's, just like supporting the  mujahedeen, Very palatable then.

Bob Lewis

"Mark"  wrote in message
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> We dealt with the devil, and created enough of our own, for way too long.
> Continuing that game would have eventually, and may still, given our late
> realization of reality, cost us many thousands of times as much as taking
> action now. Cooperation with Saddam? C'mon Geo. that was not a palatable
> course of action.
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> "Geo"  wrote in message
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>> You know Mark, for the trillion dollars it's costing us I think we could
>> have purchased his cooperation and not had a field of new headstones..
>>
>> Geo.
>>
>> "Mark"  wrote in message
>> news:41e5e3c7$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> No need to read it Geo., it was always about Saddam's refusal to
>>> cooperate -- yes it'd have been nice if he'd been refusing to do so
>> because
>>> he actually had the WMD, but not necessary to justify the action.
>>>
>>> "Geo"  wrote in message
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>>> > "Mark"  wrote in message
>>> > news:41e5c0f3{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> >> Well, I think that's pretty old news at this point,
isn't it? >> > never
>>> >> about that anyway>
>>> >
>>> > It was never about that? Perhaps you've forgotten
>>> > http://www.socialbaggage.com/colin_powel_addresses_un_01.htm
>>> >
>>> > just give it a quick scan to remind..
>>> >
>>> > Geo.
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>>
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