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To: JohnGalt
And no, not geopolitical goals. Legitimate National Security.


Iraq was definitely involved in the first Trade Center Bombing, we KNOW that. But the Administration in '93, changed terrorism from consideration as State Sponsored to Criminal Concerns (which is the most important issue in this years election).

We already had a prescence in the East, in Saudi Arabia, and we were actively warring in Iraq, enforcing the No Fly Zones. This in and of itself was sapping vital stregnth that needed to be freed up to police the War on Terror.

And You surely cant be falling into that whole "Bush conjured up the WMD argument" when the world is replete with instances of EVERYONE being on baord with the idea that they existed, from all Democrats to the UN, to Eurotrash leaders, prior to Bushs election.
16 posted on 03/16/2004 8:06:31 AM PST by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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To: hobbes1
The internationalists all agreed that Iraq was bad. Clinton needed a convenient country to bomb to distract the citizenry from his troubles at home so there was general agreement from professional Washington out to the Council on Foreign Relations that Saddam was a legit target for regime change/ nation building.

Because the Right, Bush's base, does not support nation building, the national security angle was stressed in order to gather support from Bush rightwing base.

But to believe there were no geopolitical goals is naive beyond 8th grade.

BTW, since Wolfowitz declaration that WMDs was the general reason, and there were no WMDs, why are we still there?
17 posted on 03/16/2004 8:11:34 AM PST by JohnGalt (What tale will serve me here among Mine angry and defrauded young? -- R. Kipling)
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