On Apr 7, 2005, at 3:01 PM, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
--- Nick Arnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 21:04:09 -0700 (PDT), Gautam
Mukunda wrote
--- Nick Arnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Are you saying that Warren been trying to
prevent
democracy in Iraq?
Functionally, yes.
What does that mean?
It means that there wasn't a third option between
going to war to remove Hussein and leaving him in
power. It didn't exist. No one proposed one that was
even vaguely plausible. You could choose one or the
other.
Substantial long-term support for the internal opposition
to Hussein would have been a third say: neither "going to
war" nor "leaving him in power." At the very least, we
would have avoided being seen and opposed as occupiers,
and at the best, we might have been credited with having
"uplifted" the Iraqis.
Dave
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