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To: ratan lal who wrote (2872)	10/6/2001 12:23:18 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) of 281500

>>The point is that sanctions were put in by the US after a war which the US got involved in strictly for economic reasons.<< Well, pardner. First of all, what kind of capitalist sneers at "economic reasons"? I sure don't. You've already been told, and maybe you were not listening, that not only the USA but Europe and Asia buy oil from the Middle East. Economics means food on the table, a roof over your head, clothes on your back, hospitals and schools. Nobody but an extremely naive person or a fool would sneer at economics. Second, the sanctions against Iraq were put on, not by the United States, but the United Nations, because Iraq refuses to get rid of its capacity to make weapons of mass destruction. Third, all the money that Iraq gets from selling oil can be used to buy food and medical supplies for its citizens. Why doesn't Iraq use its money to buy food and medical supplies? I have an idea - it's because they don't care about all the poor Iraqi children except making them into political footballs.

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