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jps

On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:53:22 -0500, wrote:

On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:03:44 -0800, jps wrote:

As long as he
was just fighting with Iran we were in love with him.

The writing was on the wall. The embargos had weakened him. He was
on his knees and lots inside and out of his circle knew it. You think
neither the US nor Iran knew it? Don't fool yourself.

I don't think Saddam was all that worried about losing Iraq if we
didn't take it from him. The sanctions were falling apart and he was
selling lots of oil.
As we found out, he really had destroyed or hidden all of his WMD so
we were really running out of reasons to keep the sanctions going.
I agree GW was an idiot to go in there but I still think it had more
to do with Israel than any other thing.
We certainly did not want another Arab Israel war. There is no reason
to think that would be a 6 day affair this time, nor that it would
only involve Iraq. We might have unraveled everything Carter and those
since him had accomplished in Egypt, Saudi and the Emirates. Iran
might have even dived in on Iraq's side with the "enemy of my enemy"
philosophy. Israel was not going to beat a rebuilt Iraq/Iran/Egypt
axis without nuking someone. That is how WWIII is going to start.
.
If we sided with Israel in that war we really would have an oil
crisis. I am not even sure the Canadians would sell us oil.
We would lose most of Europe for sure. They were already backing away
from us in 1998-99.

If we are going to go to war for Israel, all I ask is we do it with
full disclosure to the American public.

What makes you think every oil producing country in the mid-east
doesn't believe we do Israel's bidding now?

I'm sorry. I agree with most of your analyses but this one doesn't
pass the sniff test. We're already assumed to be in bed with Israel.

We provide nearly all their weapons, exchange intelligence and train
for battlefield conditions with them. The veil is so thin as to be
transparent. The Arab nations aren't stupid.