[lit-ideas] Re: Iraqi problems caused by Iran (1)
- From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 19:10:36 -0800
"I believe demolishing Hussein's military power and liberating Iraq
would be a cakewalk. Let me give simple, responsible reasons: (1) It was
a cakewalk last time; (2) they've become much weaker; (3) we've become
much stronger; and (4) now we're playing for keeps."
[and]
"Gordon and O'Hanlon say we must not "assume that Hussein will quickly
fall." I think that's just what is likely to happen. How would it be
accomplished? By knocking out all his headquarters, communications, air
defenses and fixed military facilities through precision bombing. By
establishing military "no-drive zones" wherever Iraqi forces try to
move. By arming the Kurds in the north, Shiites in the south and his
many opponents everywhere. By using U.S. special forces and some U.S.
ground forces with protective gear against chemical and biological
weapons. By stationing theater missile defenses, to guard against any
Iraqi Scuds still in existence. And by announcing loudly that any Iraqi,
of any rank, who handles Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, in any
form, will be severely punished after the war."
[Ken Adelman, Washington Post, February 13 2002. Full article at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A1996-2002Feb12?language=printer
Adelman, along with Karl Rove, William Kristol, and others, is a member
of Project for the New American Century, the group which was beating the
drums for an invasion of Iraq as early as 1998. Their letter to Clinton
on this subject is at
http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm
(Adelman did not sign this letter. I don't know if he was a member of
PNAC then.)
Robert Paul
Reed College
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