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To: carranza2 who wrote (4257)	2/17/2003 3:20:44 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

For years the left criticized the UN sanctions against Iraq. These sanctions left the Iraqi population debased and demoralized, with dismal health care and a falling standard of living. Though this decay of Iraqi society was due explicitly to Saddam Hussein's exploitation of the sanctions to enrich himself on the lucrative oil black market while he ignored the suffering of his own people, the left called the UN's attempts to contain Hussein genocide. Now, as America moves toward confronting Iraq over its failure to disarm, those same voices from the left praise those sanctions, speaking about them with a degree of reverence as the most intrusive and effective sanctions in history. This paragraph pretty much sums up the dilemna of the the peace-niks. There position is based upon an inherent cognitive dissonance where promoting "peace" results in continuing the economic sanctions, as well as effectively supporting Saddam's regime. The entire movement strikes me as similar to the anti-tax movement.. People hate paying taxes, but they love to receive benefits from the government. Or if we want to take it to the extreme, we could say that these are the kinds of people who think we should never prosecute drug dealers or Mafioso because they might retaliate.. And that's why I become so perturbed by those who blindly advance peace, yet provide no realistic alternative to achieving the same result (disarmament and/or regime change) as military action... Hawk Thanks for posting the article.