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To: Machaon who wrote (17343)1/27/2002 11:49:18 AM
From: maceng2  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 281500
 
not going to win American friends with your anti-American pro-Saddamn bias.

This is not about "American bashing". This is about one aspect of American foreign policy that is suspect. i.e. a disruptive holding of Iraqi imports that has a widespread impact on the whole Iraqi economy.

You know as well as do that whole loads of people die in the USA because they do not get appropriate treatment soon enough. What do you think would happen to the death rate if ...say, 50% of all medicines, equipment and transport disappeared overnight?

What's so "anti American" about what I'm saying?. Apply the sanctions in the manner they were intended is all I'm saying.

No I don't condone what Saddamn is doing, or the Palestinian terrorists or any of their cruel methods. Far from it, If this country has to go to war on these issues, I will be there supporting it and the USA.



To: Machaon who wrote (17343)1/27/2002 2:13:55 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Pearly's point is well taken, IMO. Saddam isn't suffering one iota from the sanctions, it's the Iraqi people who suffer.