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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mark Konrad who wrote (14013)	2/28/2003 4:34:14 PM
From: Mark Konrad	Respond to of 25898

Some worthwhile and interesting posts today amidst the understandably heightened passions. Heading out...take care, everyone--MK--

To: Mark Konrad who wrote (14013)	2/28/2003 4:52:58 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

You worry about coercion? One hundred percent of the Iraqi population voted for Saddam; THAT smacks of coercion. Besides doing everything he tells them to do, what else is there left to coerce from them. From everything I've read, Saddam is a monster, of whom the United States once approved even knowing his murderous ways. Yet he's not stupid. Allowing medicines to heal his population and foods to feed them would be a win/win for Saddam. The fact is,we really don't know much about life in Iraq. Last night on one of those cable news channels, they showed a live hookup between two colleges, one in Iraq and the other in the US. The two groups got to voice their views to one another. One young woman who'd lived in CO until just before the Gulf War said she still has trouble sleeping because of the PTS from the American bombing. She doesn't want us to attack Iraq. She stated that to the extent the govt can, it provides free healthcare and education for all its citizens. I recalled a friend, who because she'd changed med insurance before a diagnosis of lymphoma came back, was therefore denied insurance coverage for that cancer. She and her friends went to the community for help and they rallied to her aid. Because her doctor waived his fees and put her into a clinical trial, she was able to receivethe bone marrow transplant. She and her family didn't lose their house. That was 95 and she's still doing fine. I recall an acquaintance telling me that her daughter had been denied medical care because she'd had no insurance. By the time enough donations had come in to help her, she'd lapsed into a fatal coma. An alarming percentage of American citizens are without insurance and cannot get healthcare. Maybe someone should give this country aid and hopefully the leaders will allow the citizens to opportune themselves of it.