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questions for Iran hawks
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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
didn't the containment that was working include our starving the people of Iraq with sanctions and require us to have a few hundred thousand soldiers on its border? you see those as acceptable long term?
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I agree that the sanctions were inflicting a toll on Iraqis. I submit that many more have died since then. I think you are exagerating the number of soldiers we kept in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, and in any event this was far less expensive than having our soldiers tied down in Iraq under the current scenario.
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