Re: Time.com asks you to vote for most dangerous country

From: Andrew Clough (aclough@mit.edu)
Date: Sun Feb 02 2003 - 09:58:50 MST


At 05:59 PM 2/1/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>Am Samstag, 1. Februar 2003 15:17 schrieb WS:
>
>Yes I doubt about it, as far as Iraq and Saddam are concerned. He
>currently has nothing to win with a war. Every open aggression would
>immediately bring up the coalition of 90/91 again. It's therfore much
>wiser for him to play as dead and innocent as he does. If there's one
>thing he's an expert in, it is to keep his position, even if an
>international arm invades his country. (I'd still like to know why the
>last US-invasion was stopped so sonn. Can anybody enlighten me on this?)
>
>
> Kai

I think this was because it wasn't a US invasion, or at least no a US only
invasion. The UN mandate we had said that we could liberate Kuwait, but
didn't say anything about invading Iraq.



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