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Article #1196Re: Call Her an Idiot
From: Merlin Dorfman
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 20:20
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 20:20
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Charlie Wilkes (charlie_wilkes@easynews.com) wrote:
: The military goal of eliminating Saddam seems trivial next to the job
: of constituting an effective gov't for Iraq without a mandate to do so
: that has at least some regional buy-in.
Exactly. As much criticism as it has occasioned, and as much
of a problem as it seems in hindsight, the decision not to occupy
Baghdad during the Gulf War was at least partly due to this
consideration: who or what would replace Saddam? (Another
consideration was not wanting to leave Iran as the only power in
the region.)
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb1cb,45200f002c4c625f X-Google-Attributes: gidfb1cb,public X-Google-Thread: 107d03,45200f002c4c625f X-Google-Attributes: gid107d03,public X-Google-Thread: 1128d6,45200f002c4c625f X-Google-Attributes: gid1128d6,public X-Google-Thread: f824f,45200f002c4c625f X-Google-Attributes: gidf824f,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-08-01 13:20:31 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!paloalto-snf1.gtei.net!chcgil2-snh1.gtei.net!sanjose1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!news.mainstreet.net!wasp.rahul.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!dorfman.a2i!dorfman From: Merlin Dorfman <dorfman@rahul.net> Newsgroups: pdx.general,seattle.general,ba.general,la.general Subject: Re: Call Her an Idiot Followup-To: pdx.general,seattle.general,ba.general,la.general Date: 1 Aug 2002 20:20:25 GMT Organization: a2i network Lines: 14 Message-ID: <aic569$541$1@samba.rahul.net> References: <964660956.572137@irys.nyx.net> <RcI09.318155$iX5.15927698@bin3.nnrp.aus1.giganews.com> <uk6lqai7ni02c8@corp.supernews.com> <3D483EDF.B75A075C@dsl-only.net> <caczcasdrkrrkr18664042405@bizaveNOSPAM.com> <ukhrh3qi11g182@corp.supernews.com> <do3jkusv6aq27tuauoehnjntbvcjlcglkp@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: waltz.rahul.net NNTP-Posting-User: dorfman X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]