John W. <worthj1970@yahoo.com> wrote:
> mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote in message news:<cg52nb$4v0$1@news.Stanford.EDU>...

> I have yet to see a reason justifying it that I can buy into. The
> security excuse was always dodgy, and then the combination of the
> humanitarian reason made it worse because for both those reasons North
> Korea is a much bigger threat. I guarantee that had we let things run

Yes, but they have nukes, and a touchy China on their northern border.
Iraq or Iran presented easier targets.

> their course in a year or so of real, honest to goodness pressyre Iraq

That's what Germany asked for.

Mike