Re: NYTimes.com Article: THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: War of Ideas, Part 2

Bob Scheetz wrote:

> anthony,
>      neither did clinton have before him dr.'s blix and el baradai's 
> running
> inspection reports.

That's because the inspectors were kicked out of Iraq under Clinton, and 
therefore couldn't continue their running inspection reports. As for what 
Bush had before him from Blix:

"Resolution 687 (1991), like the subsequent resolutions I shall refer to, 
required cooperation by Iraq but such was often withheld or given 
grudgingly. Unlike South Africa, which decided on its own to eliminate its 
nuclear weapons and welcomed inspection as a means of creating confidence in 
its disarmament, Iraq appears not to have come to a genuine acceptance ? NOT 
EVEN TODAY ? of the disarmament, which was demanded of it and which it needs 
to carry out to win the confidence of the world and to live in peace." (Hans 
Blix report to UN on January 27, 2003)

> also the strauss-wolfowitz-perle big idea (ideological
> fervor) is, while compassing, vastly more grandiose than oil.

Whatever big idea you have in mind will be vastly more probable than 
Chomsky's oil conspiracy theory.

Anthony Crifasi

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