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Originally posted by RawAlex@Feb 26 2003, 03:47 PM
If you don't think it is about oil, then try to figure the difference between North Korea (nuclear armed, firing test missles actively, etc) vs Iraq (might have weapons, nothing found yet except for missles that might be able to go 15 miles further than the UN allows). There is ONE major difference, and it is what is under the ground in the two countries... one is poor and without the ability to feed it's people, and the other sits on the largest oil reserves in the world.
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Just assume that the US were going to war with both North Korea and Iraq. Would the order of importance of the action be the only determining factor in which would be attacked first? Since when does one tackle objectives only in their order of their importance?
In my opinion, North Korea is a bigger threat than Iraq and I doubt many in the US administration see it differently. Diplomacy, in the eyes of many, has failed with Iraq. Many Diplomatic efforts will still be made with North Korea.