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“There’s incredible carnage in the process of trying to create a clone,” he said. “This is a very, very inefficient process, and the inefficiency is accompanied by a great deal of death and destruction.”
The fantasy involves a domino theory. The destruction of Saddam's Iraq will not only remove an enemy of long-standing but will also change the basic power equation in the region. It will send a message to Syria and Iran about the perils of support for Islamic terrorists. It...
He said that he does not believe that Iraq has nuclear weapons, mentioning that he thinks the United States avoids war with countries that have already acquired weapons of mass destruction, pointing to the situation in North Korea as an example.
Such evidence won't necessarily help the U.S. make the political case that Saddam represents an imminent menace that must be preemptively dealt with. The strongest argument on that front is one that might be called North Korea-in-reverse: Saddam must be stopped from going nuclear, because if he...
Although it is impossible to predict how Iraqi generals will react to an amnesty offer, best-case scenarios range from seeing them provide U.N. weapons inspectors with incriminating evidence to toppling Saddam perhaps with U.N. military support. "Call it psychology," Saud explained. "Nobody knows who is his friend or who...