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ESSAY: OUR PRESENCE IN IRAQ
By William Goldcamp. Published January 2, 2004
Goldcamp is a diplomatic historian and a former intelligence analyst.

"Disingenuous and facile people always point to war as the ultimate evil. This position is intellectually bankrupt and is one of the main reasons why tyranny repeatedly reconstitutes itself to threaten liberty. A new University of Chicago study challenges the left’s and the religious pacifists’ naive contention that containing Saddam’s ambitions would have obviated the need to go to war. The study concluded containment would have cost $380 billion, as opposed to $200 billion to drive Saddam from power and rebuild Iraq. It also estimated Saddam would have continued to brutalize his people and would have murdered as many as 200,000 more Iraqis."