At 04:53 PM 4/7/2005 -0700, Dave Land wrote: >> 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 way: 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.
We tried that for 12 years. That same policy, of course, has worked very effectively for the last 40+ years in Cuba as well..... JDG - "Next", Maru..... _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
