Atrios has already talked about this, but it bears repeating:
- From last night's Capital Gang
- NOVAK: That's exactly right. But the last thing that the hawks inside the administration, and their friends outside the administration, want is a coup d'etat that would replace Saddam Hussein. They want a war as a manifestation of U.S. power in the world and as a sign that the United States is capable of changing the balance of power and the political map of the Middle East.
- There's no question that the last thing they want is Saddam Hussein put on a plane and taken...
- O'BEIRNE: Bob, Bob, speaking...
- NOVAK: ... to -- taken away.
- O'BEIRNE: ... speaking, speaking for this hawk, I want to see a regime in Baghdad that would not be armed with weapons of mass destruction. That might not happen through a coup. If that could happen through a coup, you could avoid war.
- SHIELDS: But Bob, that's a pretty serious charge (UNINTELLIGIBLE). You're saying that there are people, I mean, who almost have a blood lust in this administration.
- NOVAK: Listen, (UNINTELLIGIBLE) don't (UNINTELLIGIBLE)...
- SHIELDS: (UNINTELLIGIBLE), you're saying they want war.
- NOVAK: All right. Talking to a senior official, and he said to me, he said, Well, if we don't hit in Iraq, where are we going to hit? And they -- it's a desire that the United States, the superpower, is going to manifest its authority to the rest of the world.
- Listen, I just feel that this potential -- this war, I just trust it comes off easily. But I have trepidation that it won't be easy, and there's going to be a terrible consequences from it.
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