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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK
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To: one_less who wrote (12593)11/3/1998 4:36:00 PM
From: mrknowitall  Read Replies (2) of 67261
 
Brees - what on earth leads you to believe the lifting of the embargo is going to help the people Saddam is allowing to die? He is using them as pawns in his sick game of retaining power.

Lifting of the sanctions will do nothing for them. Any aid will be siphoned off to Saddam's friends and any cash inflow will be redirected at acquiring technology to strike back.

As to us spending billions of dollars - on what? The UN oversight teams? Nonsense.

You are entirely correct that the strategy has failed to accomplish its original goal. Now the question is what to do? You don't expect us to believe that he will somehow magically transform himself into a benefactor to the people has has systematically tried to destroy, do you? You really feel that the innocents are going to be the recipients of some newly found humanity on his part? In your dreams - or only in the carefully orchestrated news accounts if the sanctions were dropped.

If the sanctions were to be dropped today, a few years from now when he's shipped a nuclear device upriver to Washington or into NY harbor and killed and injured millions of Americans, or smuggled a deadly nerve agent into a huge office complex or mall, we can all get together and applaud our earlier sensitivity and generosity.

Mr. K.
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