From: Adam Flinton 

Mark Hessey wrote:

> "Monte Davis"  wrote: since
>
>>you now dismissed those two points as sideshows, it's a damn shame you
>>weren't there to set him straight.
>
>
> I didn't intend to relegate them to sideshow status. They were important
> too, where we differ in that regard is you think Bush et.al. knowingly and
> intentionally falsified that information, I maintain that they did not.
>
>
>> you now substitute "shutting down the terrorist
mind-set" -- a rationale
>>so broad and vague and gaseous that it can justify attacking any
>>country anywhere anytime.
>
>
> Technically I suppose it could, but in reality it would not. Don't forget
> the most important aspect of all in regards to Iraq: a decade of resolutions
> that were not working and never would have. While we spent billions doing
> flyovers, Saddam lined the pockets of our future adversaries in the security
> council - that's more than enough justification alone. Next up is the hard
> choice of mucking around with Kim Jong Il for another decade without
> progress or prompting another choice with heavy participation from China -
> waiting makes him more dangerous than he is now and kills many more than the
> 1,000 a month that Saddam was slaughtering (120,000+ while we had our jets
> shot at for a decade). To me that makes waiting criminal.
>
>

Of course the fact that many may well have died due to sanctions.....is an
unfortunate byproduct of a foreign policy objective & nothing more.

Adam

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