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Politics : Attack Iraq? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rollcast... who wrote (430)	9/5/2002 3:55:22 PM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8683

Now they say he has no nuclear weapons, so we shouldn't take him out... later they'll say he has nuclear weapons, so we shouldn't upset him... they don't know what they want, and frankly I don't care what they say or think... we're going to take him out in short order..... GZ

To: Rollcast... who wrote (430)	9/5/2002 7:47:36 PM
From: JEB	Respond to of 8683

US Lawmakers To Tour Southern Iraq Associated Press Last Updated: Sept. 1, 1999 at 10:21:20 a.m. BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. congressional staffers on a fact-finding mission to Iraq wrapped up their visit to Baghdad today, then headed to battered southern areas. Meanwhile, U.S. fighter planes in the northern no-fly zone bombed an Iraqi air defense site near Mosul today after being fired upon, the U.S. European Command, based in Germany, said in a statement. Mosul is about 250 miles north of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. The U.S. delegation will visit the impoverished southern city of Basra today, which has been tense since the mysterious Feb. 19 assassination of the supreme leader of Iraq's Shiite Muslims, Ayatollah Mohammed Sadiq al-Sader, and his two sons. Shiites are the majority in Iraq but most power is in the hands of Sunni Muslims. A Shiite uprising was crushed after the 1991 Persian Gulf War, and U.S. and British warplanes also patrol parts of the south to prevent Iraqi forces from attacking Shiite rebels. Basra's nearly 1.5 million people live on meager government rations and clean water is in short supply, conditions Iraqi officials have blamed on U.N. sanctions. The Americans are in Iraq to examine the impact of the sanctions imposed following Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait. The measures cannot be lifted until Iraq proves to the international community that it has eliminated its weapons of mass destruction and honored other 1991 Gulf War cease-fire obligations. Baghdad accuses Washington of blocking any effort by the international community to ease the sanctions. Some members of Congress have questioned the effectiveness of the Clinton administration's Iraq policy. The congressional staffers have refused to speak to reporters, leaving official comments to trip organizer Phyllis Bennis of the Washington-based Institute for Policy Studies. Bennis called Tuesday's meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz ``warm, cordial and productive.'' According to Iraqi news reports, he briefed them on the effect of sanctions in Iraq's infrastructure. The Americans also met Tuesday with Iraqis involved in education, health and literature, and have visited a hospital and Health Ministry and U.N offices in Baghdad. They end their southern tour on Thursday and plan to depart Iraq Friday. jsonline.com