"Wdtabor" wrote in message
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In article 5_Ozb.422240$HS4.3350892@attbi_s01, "Jay Honeck"
writes:


In your view, what were his REAL motives for ousting Saddam?
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They're not going to like it, but the real motive was to change the
character
of the middle east and make it a less volitile place, while killing as few
people in the process as possible.

Yet when Saddam was at the height of his military strength and at the height
of his terrorist atrocities, the US *supported* him on the grounds that his
regime was a *stabilizing* influence.

Leaving as it was, and putting up with terrorism forever, as Europe seems
willing to do, was not an acceptable option.

As the CIA pointed out, invading Iraq will likely increase, not decrease,
our vulnerability to terrorist attacks.

--Gary