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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK
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To: one_less who wrote (12358)11/2/1998 4:23:00 PM
From: mrknowitall  Read Replies (1) of 67261
 
brees - "We are led to believe that our hands are tied by Saddam and his weapons of mass destruction."

I disagree. Our hands are not tied by his weapons; our administration's lack of principle and weakened influence with the rest of the world has let Saddam win each and every foot of ground in the "hide the weapons" game he plays.

"Do we have proof of these weapons?" Certainly more proof of those than we did of chemical and biological weapons development in Sudan.

"Millions of innocent children dead and dieing [sic] of starvation and disease directly as a result of the sanctions." Wrong. Directly as a result of Saddam's actions and refusal to live up to the terms of the surrender. (You don't punish the warden for the crimes of the inmates.)

"Why does it continue?" The same reason children who misbehave will continue to misbehave - no one has sufficiently convinced them that their misbehavior brings about sufficient consequences to make them stop. Sanctions have not done it because it does not actually punish those in power.

Clinton and his lack of solid, identifiable character has let most of the world's bad guys run amok, while in a fit of pique during a convenient moment, he lashed out in a dubious publicity stunt.

Mr. K.
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