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To: jcky who wrote (41574)	9/2/2002 3:36:14 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

There has been an unwritten code of conduct in the international community to honor the sovereignty of nations unless one is attacked first or in the position of being imminently threatened with invasion. It's actually based on the Treaty of Westphalia, 1648. But it's not universally followed, certainly not by the United States - see, e.g., Max Boot's Savage War of Peace.

To: jcky who wrote (41574)	9/2/2002 4:54:58 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Mercy jcky....Do you think this is OK--the sign of a civilized nation/leader??? And by the way, the case of Saddam using nerve gas upon the Kurds and the Iranians are all consistent with the policy of deterrence. With the Kurds Saddam's use of nerve gas served to make a very blunt point: uprising by constituents of his own country which threatens the existence of his governance will not be tolerated. And when the tide of the Iran-Iraq war turned into the favor of Tehran, Saddam employed nerve gas upon the countless wave of Iranians overrunning into Iraq to deter any further advancements. It worked.