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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
Summer is over baby! I for one, am quite pleased about that!
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Not in Iowa it isn't.
Come to think of it, aren't you someplace even hotter? I shouldn't complain--so far it's the coolest fall I can remember since we moved here!
Back on topic: it would be interesting to know what would have happened if GHW Bush had "finished the job" against Saddam. In fact, someone mentioned his stated reasons for not doing so earlier in the thread, IIRC--and I think they're compelling reasons, especially if you don't know that Saddam will remain in power for 10 more years. One difference is that at that time Saddam really did have WMDs--and to invade and occupy might well have been much more dangerous as a result.
Saddam was a lot weaker by 2002, both militarily and politically. You'll notice that strong leaders with substantial military might get a little bit of a different treatment on the WMD issue from the U.S. North Korea and Iran are both nations with obvious nuclear ambitions, if not yet with nuclear weapons. And I can't shake the feeling that there's not a darn thing anyone can do about it.