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  • #46
    Originally posted by HershOstropoler
    "Oil could have been served better by simply supporting an end to sanctions."

    Would have still left the Saudis in charge.
    How? saddam would have had every incentive to ship as much as possible, not to follow the Saudis.
    "A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin Buber

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    • #47
      Originally posted by HershOstropoler


      "Israel will not be well-served if the US is weakened in the region, which will certainly happen if we dont democratize Iraq."

      You'll be weakened either way, unless you get a democratic government in Iraq that loves you. A tad bit unlikely.

      Well you should read the reactions of the Kurds and the Marsh arabs to the american presence. But we dont need one that loves us. We dont need bases. We dont need fat contracts. What we need is a change in the political culture in the region.
      "A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin Buber

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      • #48
        If the Islamists take over, then I would say that the Baathist insurgency is over and a new one is beginning. One group will likely have very different tactics than the other.
        I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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        • #49
          I'd expect to see the Sunni establishment take over. At least, that's still the feeling I get from Powell et al.

          I have no clue what Rummy and Wolfy want any more. Their pre-war "planning" consisted entirely of hoping Chalabi would reign in the situation. As far as I can tell, they still want to ultimately hand over power to that crook (thereby turning Iraq into Lebanon II).
          "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
          -Bokonon

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