In a message dated 4/29/06 12:26:09 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Do you think maybe those sanctions should have been lifted  once
Hans Blix
> came to the conclusion there were no WMD's in Iraq, assuming Bush 
had not
> invaded Iraq?
>
From what I read, the sanctions were easily bypassed by those with
the money to do so, yet as imperfectly as they were enforced,
perhaps that was the most effective way to contain such a regime. If
in fact such containment was necessary for a second rate dictator,
after we decimated his armed forces in 91.
According to the Dueffler report on Iraq, while they didn't find any WMD's there, Saddam was very capable of reconstituting his WMD programs easily and was more dangerous than ever because he was hell bent on getting the sanctions lifted against Iraq. The fact that the sanctions were easily bypassed and were to many a joke, was all the more reason why Saddam's allies could have been manipulated to lift them all together, "for the sake of the children". Also for the sake of paying off those enormous debts to Russia and France. Could you imagine what Saddam would be doing right now had sanctions been lifted and his neighbor Iran was off to the races on building nukes? Do you think he would not feel justified in doing the same, this time in the name of self defense?


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