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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (7094)	10/23/2001 11:23:14 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi Jim Woolly CB; Re: "What we forget: food is a weapon to these people, has been for centuries. They use it, they dont like it used against them." (My punctuation.) Food has always been a weapon of war. This dates back to Troy, or the Old Testament. The United States has never renounced food as a weapon. Recently we've been trying to starve Iraq into submission, for God's sake. We starved the Japanese in WW2 and the Germans in WW1. If you want links I'm sure I can find them for you. Sometimes I'm amazed at how idealistic people are towards war. What do they think, that we force the enemy to our will by threatening them with lethal injection? -- Carl