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To: zonder who wrote (48535)	10/1/2002 1:07:05 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Zonder - maybe you can answer these questions. The Iraqi people have suffered for years because Saddam will not cooperate with UN weapons inspectors. All he has to do is allow the weapons inspectors full, unfettered access to all of Iraq in order that the weapons inspectors can locate and destroy all chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons and the means of production. He won't allow it. Why? The sanctions amount to an embargo on all Iraqi oil. It is sold by the UN and put into a bank account in the name of the Iraqi government. Saddam can use the money for food and medicine for his people. He won't do it. Why? The UN is in control of North Iraq, and the people there are well-fed, have all the medical attention they need, and all the material goods they need. The people in Saddam's Iraq could live that way, too, if only Saddam would cooperate with the weapons inspectors. He won't allow it. Why? He already agreed to do it a number of times, but always changed his mind. Why?

To: zonder who wrote (48535)	10/1/2002 5:37:28 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 281500

Zonder, yours is a very thoughtful, insightful post that linked back to Delbert's thoughtful, insightful post. Thank you. Every day on TV the US President is telling fairy tales of 'goodness' and 'evil', preparing to strike a country that has shown no more aggression in the past decade than many others. I find it difficult to believe that America believes these rather strange and simplistic presidential messages.

To: zonder who wrote (48535)	10/1/2002 7:45:29 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

zonder: Do you live in a country that the US sends aid to? Does your country live close to Iraq? Has your country helped in any way any other country in the world when that country is in need of help? Does your country have or support suicide bombers? Do you think Saddam does fund those terrorists? Do you care that Saddam has gassed and used chemical weapons on his own people? Just wondering here in America. From where I sit in Europe, the picture is very clear - the current administration has decided it is a good idea to change the balance of power in the world to their favour as much as possible in the time when they will be able to do so, until the sympathy of the world regarding the 9/11 runs out. Thus America will attack Iraq, killing who knows how many thousands of civilians in the process, in order to replace the regime with one that will be much more sympathetic to its oil needs

To: zonder who wrote (48535)	10/5/2002 2:43:42 PM
From: Krowbar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Thanks for the support Zonder. Despite what it looks like in our mainstream press, there is not overwhelming support of the American people to bomb the shit out of Iraq without at least trying the weapons inspections first. That is what the right wingers would like everybody to believe. I would have responded sooner, but I was called a few minutes after my original post that my mother had died. She saw Shrub as a bullshitter of the purest kind. She had a clear mind until the end. Del