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To: KonKilo who wrote (71718)	2/6/2003 5:00:36 AM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

That's just plain ridiculous. The oil for food program was passed in 96 and "smart sanctions" (against the long blocking in the UNSC by Russia) last year. The purpose of the sanctions were to block Iraq from importing military and dual use materials and from selling oil to finance rearmament and state terror. The facts of the matter are that the Iraqi regime cheats by illicitly selling oil and using the profits for rearmament and rewarding government and military cronies; and the Iraqi regime diverts civilian imports to maintain and reward government and Republican Guard cronies. How can you say the UN can verify anything, when it can't even verify and control how many barrels of oil are going out of the country? The UN can't count barrels of oil, but its expected to accurately count radios being dispersed throughout a country the size of California? Time to think different. UN sanctions are a failure, not for lack of trying but for lack of cooperation on the part of Saddam, and his neighbors. The Iraqi people are suffering because Saddam can manipulate the imports, and export at will. Let's try curing the source of the disease for once, instead of trying to band-aid the symptoms. Derek