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bemildred

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Sun Dec-25-05 09:39 AM
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7. Well, there was a threat of sorts, it just wasn't that big.

Saddam was giving money to the families of suiciders,
and Israel was hit by a few SCUDs back during GulfWar I.

Nevertheless, had he been left alone, it seems clear that
other than such token efforts he would have done nothing,
and there is every reason to think that there would have
been "regime change" on his demise anyway. It was the oil
and the oil bourse that made things urgent. Hiz'bullah
for example, is a much more real and urgent threat, but it
has no oil.

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