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To: Pokey78
Three years ago - April 6 2002, if you want to rummage through the old Spectators in the attic - I wrote: "The stability junkies in the EU, UN and elsewhere have, as usual, missed the point. The Middle East is too stable. So, if you had to pick only one regime to topple, why not Iraq? Once you've got rid of the ruling gang, it's the West's best shot at incubating a reasonably non-insane polity. That's why the unravelling of the Middle East has to start not in the West Bank but in Baghdad."

I don't like to say I told you so. But, actually, I do like to say I told you so. What I don't like to do is the obligatory false self-deprecatory thing to mitigate against the insufferableness of my saying I told you so. But nevertheless I did.

Is Steyn the only guy in the media who figured out, one year before we toppled Saddam, what the purpose of our policy in Iraq was?

13 posted on 02/28/2005 4:22:50 PM PST by My2Cents (America is divided along issues of morality, between the haves and the have-nots.)
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To: My2Cents
Is Steyn the only guy in the media who figured out, one year before we toppled Saddam, what the purpose of our policy in Iraq was?

Actually, Bush told us before he did it. The media and most everyone else glossed over it in their rush to condemn the invasion.

23 posted on 02/28/2005 4:27:15 PM PST by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all things that need to be done need to be done by the government.)
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To: My2Cents

Steyn's been there all along. So have a bunch of others. The left has been hearing it's own idiotic mantra and not listening to or reading what the administration has been saying all along.


30 posted on 02/28/2005 4:30:41 PM PST by CBart95
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To: My2Cents
Is Steyn the only guy in the media who figured out, one year before we toppled Saddam, what the purpose of our policy in Iraq was?

Probably not the only one, but a member of a select few. What's funny is that it was obvious to most Freepers, but so few in the media seemed to have a clue about it.

93 posted on 02/28/2005 5:34:52 PM PST by Ichneumon
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To: My2Cents
Is Steyn the only guy in the media who figured out, one year before we toppled Saddam, what the purpose of our policy in Iraq was?

Steyn...and some guy named Pramit Pal Choudhiri with the Hindustani Times

Still, the notion seems to have escaped American's MSM. Even today...

104 posted on 02/28/2005 6:02:18 PM PST by okie01 (A slavering moron and proud member of the lynch mob, cleaning the Augean stables of MSM since 1998.)
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To: My2Cents

Maybe so.

It was always obvious to me. Make an example of one of these dictators and the whole mood of the neighborhood will change.

A lot of people didn't want that, so they played dumb...."why are we going after THIS guy, why NOW".

Why did we respond to Pearl Harbor by sending troops to North Africa? It's called seeing the bigger picture.


114 posted on 02/28/2005 6:31:16 PM PST by The Fop
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To: My2Cents

I believe Fouad Adjami of Johns Hopkins and of US News was also out front with Iraq being the weak link.


123 posted on 02/28/2005 6:42:12 PM PST by takbodan (AP Help)
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To: My2Cents

No, of course not. The NEW media understood what was going on. Shoot, this is why we were all beating the drum for war, at least speaking for myself. Because he was finally doing something about it instead of letting it continue to fester and rot.

This is a vindication for all of us.


185 posted on 03/01/2005 4:45:07 AM PST by johnb838 (Need some wood?)
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