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To: maceng2 who wrote (42591)9/8/2002 1:47:15 PM
From: maceng2  Respond to of 281500
 
Thought this bit was interesting on Iran link too

At the same time, it is worth pointing out that the State Department which has so meticulously reviewed and criticized Mojahedin deeds and words of 15 years ago, has not been at all conscientious about reviewing its own past policy on Iran. Regrettably, there has been no equivalent effort to examine the negative implications of that policy either, especially because since 1984, the U.S. has again severed all ties with the Iranian people and their resistance in favor of deals with one of the most sinister regimes in the world today. Unfortunately, the minimum demand in any deal with the mullahs has been, is and will remain labeling the Iranian Resistance "terrorist." Even more perplexing is the insistence on pursuing such a policy today, when Khomeini's regime is more unpopular than the shah's ever was, and when dictatorships are giving way to new democracies in the wake of Soviet disintegration.

iran-e-azad.org

American bureaucracy, like bureaucracies everywhere, is dumber then dumb on many issues. The way the Iraqi oil sanctions were handled is a case in hand. They not only killed many tens of thousands of people and children, but they also made a whole civilian nation hostile to the USA. Don't believe me? OK lets imagine a little experiment. Iraq somehow is able to limit the amount of tires and spare parts to ambulances in the USA. Result is an hour or two extra in getting immediate medical care to accidents and emergencies. The picture is very clear to me.

American bureaucracy is aggressively dumb from my personal experience. The USA IRS is worse then our UK Inland Revenue here, even though the UK Inland Revenue charges more.

/edit. Yep... the USA answer to Iranian problems seems to have been... lets sell some more biological and chemical weapons plus a host of other armaments to Saddam Hussain 'cause he seems to be on "our side". Geezus wept.