http://www.floppingaces.net/2005/12/11/pacifism-who-needs-it/ Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:37:30 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.floppingaces.net/2005/12/11/pacifism-who-needs-it/#comment-315 lawhawk Fri, 01 Dec 2006 21:21:08 +0000 http://www.floppingaces.net/2005/12/11/pacifism-who-needs-it/#comment-315 I had met Raful Eitan back in 1993 when I was in Israel, but never got to ask him about Osirak. His actions made the Middle East far safer than it would have been had Saddam gotten the bomb. And the fact is that had Saddam gotten the bomb in the early 1980s, he might have used it first not on Israel, but on Iran with which it was locked in a bloody war (which saw repeated use of chemical weapons). I had met Raful Eitan back in 1993 when I was in Israel, but never got to ask him about Osirak. His actions made the Middle East far safer than it would have been had Saddam gotten the bomb. And the fact is that had Saddam gotten the bomb in the early 1980s, he might have used it first not on Israel, but on Iran with which it was locked in a bloody war (which saw repeated use of chemical weapons).

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