>>>>Duration of the cease fire was all up to Saddam depending on whether he was cooperating with the UN.
>>>Only if you assume the first war was fought for the same reason(s) as the second, which it wasn't. Otherwise that's changing the rules mid-game.
>>Well... no.
>>Remember all the shell games he would play with the inspectors. He even had them removed from Iraq a couple of times. Why did he do that?
>He didn't want the rest of the region to know he was helpless. Like you said, he was playing games - specifically, poker. He was bluffing his opponents.
Well then, he was playing a deadly game with deadly consequences. I guess you can say that we called his "bluff"... and he lost.
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