I raised the issue of the 1991 Persian Gulf War. The U.S. and its allies stopped short of deposing Hussein because of rather short-sighted near term political reasons. I wondered what might have happened if Iraq had been occupied by allied forces then and the process of creating a democratic state there that Bush wants to undertake in Iraq had already been ongoing for 10 years.
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Re: RE: RE: Bush, Iraq, al Qaeda, WMD, Terrorism, etc., etc., etc. (by Jim Roepcke at 4/20/2004)
On Apr 20, 2004, at 9:48 AM, Brian Carnell wrote: > I raised the issue of the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
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Re: RE: RE: Bush, Iraq, al Qaeda, WMD, Terrorism, etc., etc., etc. (by Brian Carnell at 4/20/2004)
On Apr 20, 2004, at 9:48 AM, Brian Carnell wrote: I raised the issue of the 1991 Persian Gulf War. The
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RE: RE: RE: Bush, Iraq, al Qaeda, WMD, Terrorism, etc., etc., etc. (by Seth Dillingham at 4/20/2004)
On 4/20/04, Jim Roepcke said: >Nothing has been better for the jihadists than occupying Iraq. It >plays
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Re: RE: RE: Bush, Iraq, al Qaeda, WMD, Terrorism, etc., etc., etc. (by Jim Roepcke at 4/20/2004)
On Apr 20, 2004, at 11:16 AM, Seth Dillingham wrote: > On 4/20/04, Jim Roepcke said: > >> Nothing has
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Re: RE: RE: Bush, Iraq, al Qaeda, WMD, Terrorism, etc., etc., etc. (by Bill Kearney at 4/21/2004)
> I didn't have the brainpower left to read something like that. This, unfortunately, seems all too
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Re: RE: RE: Bush, Iraq, al Qaeda, WMD, Terrorism, etc., etc., etc. (by Jim Roepcke at 4/21/2004)
On Apr 21, 2004, at 11:03 AM, Bill Kearney wrote: >> I didn't have the brainpower left to read something
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Re: RE: RE: Bush, Iraq, al Qaeda, WMD, Terrorism, etc., etc., etc. (by Bill Kearney at 4/21/2004)
> Short sighted near term political reasons? They were in the Persian > Gulf to liberate Kuwait, not
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Re: RE: RE: Bush, Iraq, al Qaeda, WMD, Terrorism, etc., etc., etc. (by Jim Roepcke at 4/21/2004)
On Apr 21, 2004, at 11:05 AM, Bill Kearney wrote: >> Perhaps the public would have accepted a targeted
