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Not getting how this is exclusive from the message being replied to?

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From: <GAmoore@...>
To: <logic-ot@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 9:05 PM
Subject: [L-OT] OT Goodbye / Hussein


> Thats not what I heard. The Arab coalition wouldn't agree to invading
> Bagdad - although no army stood in the way of the American and British
> armies. They expected and believed that the Iraqi people would rise up
> and revolt. There were isolated rebels in the south and the Kurds in the
> north. Unfortunately, the US and England didn't defend them sufficiently
> and it died out. It takes a real army to defeat that bastard, not a bunch
> of ragtag desserters and shop keepers.
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> >> Because dropping Saddam would have meant the fundamentalists would
> >> have come to power.  Choosing between two evils...  And so after our
> >> oil-supply has been secured (Gulf-war), Saddam is now allowed to
> >> terrorize his own people, while the western world sits back and does
> >> nothing...
> >
> >The reason Colin Powell gave was that they didn't want to occupy the
country
> >long term, and that they felt they would have to do that to stabilize it
if
> >they took out Saddam.  Makes sense, if only from a purely operational
> >view....
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