On 9/13/06, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[of interest]
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From: Cole, Juan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sep 13, 2006 11:27 AM
Bush and Rockefeller
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Should Saddam have been defanged and if possible removed?
Yes.
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Saddam was being attacked, constrained, and ever
increasingly diminished as a threat, by sanctions and inspections,
which needed to be extended and turned into smart sanctions.
Will American liberals and leftists ever chuck these two assumptions,
about Iraq or any other country?
As for who takes
over Ramadi when we leave, well, the Iraqis can work that out among
themselves. We don't care who runs Rangoon. Why should we care who
runs Ramadi?
They sure care about who runs Basra and Kirkuk:
<http://www.judicialwatch.org/iraqi-oil-maps.shtml>
<http://www.judicialwatch.org/IraqOilMap.pdf>. And Ramadi is close to
Baghdad and the Iraq Strategic Pipeline among other things.
--
Yoshie
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