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...South Africa, Romania or even the Philippines, each a place where democracy germinated because its seed was planted by the populace. Narmada Guruswamy Aberdeen, Scotland Now that the war in Iraq has gone awry, Sullivan is wrong again about the war. The U.S. did not go to war against Saddam Hussein because Iraqis were starving and there was corruption in the U.N. oil-for-food program. The U.S. went to war in Iraq ostensibly to contain Islamic terrorism. But the allegation that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction was just an excuse to invade, and Iraq was not a base...
...speech, Shays delivered, all at once, an apology for and a justification of his strong support for the war in Iraq, which, as in so many other parts of the country, is now very unpopular in Connecticut. "President Bush didn't lie. He was wrong, I was wrong about Saddam having weapons of mass destruction," he said, while noting that a long list of other countries thought Iraq had WMD. And he was critical of some of Bush's decisions: "We made a huge mistake when we disbanded their army, their police force, their border control." But on the plus...
...still has a challenge to put in place systems that are robust enough to give managers assurance that they know what's happening. But if you take the oil-for-food issue, let's remember that the real corruption was between Saddam Hussein and thousands of companies...
...solution to Iraq's problems can be found in the example of Yugoslavia. If the Shi'ites and the Sunnis refuse to cooperate, let them form separate states. Otherwise, they will continue to battle. The Shi'ites don't want to share the power that they have gained since Saddam's overthrow, and the Sunnis refuse to accept minority status in the new government. If dissolving the former Soviet empire and breaking up its satellite states of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia made sense, why doesn't separation make sense for Iraq? Bob Mason St. Albert, Canada...
...Consolidating post-Saddam Iraq could prove more expensive than the war itself. Meanwhile, there is growing resentment in the U.S. at the continuing loss of American lives. And if the U.S. were to declare war on Iran, a dwindling "coalition of the willing" might eventually become a "coalition of the billing," making opportunistic demands on the U.S. More important, oil prices may hit $100 or more per barrel if Iran embargoes its oil exports or bottles up oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation. And the U.S.'s huge budget deficit, compounded by war, inflation and soaring...