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To: gmccon who wrote (25712)1/9/1999 9:03:00 AM
From: Enigma   of 116814
 
gmccon - there have been a lot of off topic matters on this thread - mostly about Clinton, but I didn't read Gord's well thought out comment about Iraq as being particularly anti- American. If we wanted to take out all the countries who are said to be 'threats to their neighbours' we should start with North Korea - why is it not done?
Could it be that they have no oil and American lives would be lost - perhaps masively?. No, it's far easier to wage push button wars where combatants are kept out of harm's way. A plane or two may be lost in the present American/British/French (less so) policing of their own no fly zones - but the Iraqi planes are no match for the others. The no-fly zones were not sanctioned by the UN. Conveniently the UN is ignored when it suits - just look at the UN resolutions ignored by Israel. Iraq has become the east whipping boy - Saddam was once the lynchpin of US policy in the area. E
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