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18 June 2002   

 

Guardian: Iraq and ruin

"There are also doubts among the American military about the wisdom of attacking Iraq. At a meeting with President Bush last month, General Tommy Franks laid out some of their concerns. These included:

  • The likelihood Saddam would resort to chemical and biological weapons if he felt cornered.
  • The danger of getting US troops bogged down in a bloody street-fighting in Iraq.
  • The problem of finding a successor to Saddam who would be capable of improving the situation inside Iraq.

These difficulties provide a context for the disclosure, last weekend, that President Bush has signed an order authorising the CIA and American special forces to use "lethal force" to capture or kill Saddam Hussein - in other words, to organise a coup.

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