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> On Wed, 28 May 2003, Reuters was quoted quoting Wolfowitz saying:
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>> Wolfowitz said another reason for the invasion had been "almost
>> unnoticed but huge" -- namely that the ousting of Saddam would allow the
>> United States to remove its troops from Saudi Arabia, where their
>> presence had long been a major al Qaeda grievance.
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>> "Just lifting that burden from the Saudis is itself going to open the
>> door" to a more peaceful Middle East, Wolfowitz was quoted as saying.
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> There's only one problem with that argument -- we could have removed the
> troops without the war. All the war proved was that troops in Saudi
> Arabia were useless because they were politically impossible to use. If
> removing them was huge, then we were hugely stupid not to have removed
> them earlier.
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> Which we were.
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> God this guy is stupid. It's hard to believe he's supposed to be the
> smart one. Is that what McNamara looked like from the outside in the 60s?
>
> Michael
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I'm sorry but is not the argument that the troops were a deterrent to Hussein, and therefore necessary until he was removed.
Just curious. Jacob Segal