From: "Phil Payne" 

"Mark"  wrote in message
news:45b1a957$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Of course I understand that you feel we should have appeased Saddam
forever.

Appeased?  He was totally contained under the most vicious sanctions ever,
and no threat to anyone.

> We didn't, whether you agree with that decision or not. So, since you
think
> we were wrong in taking him down, you now feel compelled to double down
and
> abandon the Iraqi people again? (because appeasing Saddam was most
certainly
> abandoning the Iraqi people for the past dozen years).

Compared with today, I think they would have preferred being abandoned.

> For what reason, John, are you so anxious to throw 26 million Iraqis to
the
> wolves? I can't think of any credible ones myself.

You already have done.  There's nothing the USA can do to bring peace to Iraq.

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