Re: IRAQ: cost of inspections

From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sat Feb 22 2003 - 15:30:10 MST

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    Wei Dai wrote:
    > On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 11:53:56AM -0500, John K Clark wrote:
    >
    >>"Samantha Atkins" <samantha@objectent.com>
    >> >Bring these people home and stop being the dead horse that is
    >> >Iraq.
    >>
    >>So to deal with this situation you advise no war no sanctions no inspections
    >>no nothing and just hope the problem will somehow go away. Sort of makes
    >>Jacques Chirac look like Solomon don't you think.
    >
    >
    > At least Samantha is being logically consistent. She thinks there is no
    > problem, so no solution is necessary. What I don't understand are the
    > people who admit there is a problem, but argue for continuing inspections
    > indefinitely as the preferred solution. My question was targeted to them.

    Correction: I believe there is currently no problem in Iraq
    that can be anything but severely worsened by the proposed
    invasion, much less "solved". I take it for granted that
    sensible people see that there is no imminent threat from Iraq
    based on the evidence to date.

    - samantha



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