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To: Fred Levine who wrote (67391)	1/24/2003 2:30:47 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

<<Unless we hold criminals responsible>> We are not sending 150,000 troops into Iraq to bring an evil man to justice, or because he is breaking international law. If that were the motivation, we would have done it after he gassed Kurd villages, many years ago. Opinion polls throughout the Muslim world, and in W. Europe, have it right. They think, by huge majorities, that we are attacking Iraq to seize their oil fields. It is an act of imperialism. And, as all such acts are, it will be dressed up in a cloak of morality and ethics. When the Brits seized half of Africa in the 1800s, they always said it was to suppress the slave trade, and consistently denied that it had anything to do with imperial ambitions. They said they didn't really want colonies, it just sort of happened accidentally, as a by-product of ending the evil of slavery. The Bush administration is playing the same PR game today. <<I am thrilled at the Milosevic trial >> How thrilled will you be when they go after Sharon? The consensus of global opinion is that Sharon is just as bad as Milosevic. Would you insist (as the Bush Administration does), that U.S. soldiers be exempt from any international justice system?