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| Iraq Attack Would Focus on Leaders, Rumsfeld Says |
| 2002-09-23 |
| U.S. military forces are seeking to minimize the impact of a potential war with Iraq on its citizens and would focus on the country's leaders, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Sunday. "The small group of people that run Iraq and have run it for a good many years have repressed the people — and, in a very real sense, the people of that country are hostages to a small group of dictatorial, repressive government officials," he said. That's pretty typical of iron-fisted dictatorships... Rumsfeld arrived in Warsaw late Sunday for a meeting of defense ministers from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. He intended to present his colleagues with classified intelligence information that, he said, indicates that Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction pose a threat both to neighboring countries and to NATO members, including the United States. I can see Sammy developing missiles capable of hitting Europe before he's capable of hitting the USA. Not too sure why the Euros haven't noticed that... The threats are said to include either direct action by the Iraqi leader or acts carried out by terrorist proxies; the White House has repeatedly emphasized in recent weeks that there are Al Qaeda cells in Iraq. Administration officials are seeking to craft a plan that gives Iraqi civilians and even soldiers the chance to switch sides or at least stand down if U.S. forces begin a military campaign, defense officials have said. I don't think there's a real alliance between Sammy and al-Qaeda. A nodding acquaintance, perhaps, a feeling of belonging to the same club, but nothing formal. If I was Bush, and I wanted to make propaganda, I'd be referring occasionally to Sammy's offer to take in Binny and Mullah Omar back in December and making more of it than was actually there. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |