It backfired in WHOSE face?
Geoff Branch
----- Original Message -----
From "David Lieb" <dbl at chicagolandmgclub.com>
To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 10:20 AM
Subject: Re: Stirrin' up some s**t
> > Okay....I need a reminder: Why DID we invade Iraq?
>
> Because nobody understood that Sadam was posturing like mad to save face.
> After Gulf War I, he no longer had the resources to do squat, but he had
> antagonized all of his neighbors to the point that, had they realized how
> defenseless he was, they would have taken him out for us. In order to
avoid
> this, Sadam had to sound as if he was a global power. Unfortunately, he
> bluffed so well that it backfired in his face (to mix the metaphors
> thoroughly). Oops.
> David Lieb
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