--- Dennis Perrin <dperrin at comcast.net> wrote:
> > I always said --
> > you can look it up in the archives -- that we
> _knew_
> > that there were no WMDs, otherwise the US would
> not
> > have attacked Iraq.
>
> I'll take your word, Justin, that you always "knew."
> But Saddam surely had
> weapons in 1991, and the US attacked him in Kuwait.
> So I think that part of
> your argument doesn't hold up. It is true, however,
> that the US prefers
> attacking weaker countries -- the more disarmed the
> better. But the first
> Gulf War took place before the UN sent inspectors
> into Iraq, and only a few
> years after the disastrous Iran/Iraq war.
>
> DP
>
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