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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (85646)	3/24/2003 11:19:03 AM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Can you tell me why he(bush 41) prevented the population to reach arms depotes and why he did not shoot down the Iraqi gunships shooting into the civilians? There are many shades between occupation and inaction. " Stormin Norman inadvertantly took the blame for this yesterday on TV when he said he allowed the use of helicoptors in the no fly zone, not knowing the "sobs" would use gunships. Takes some of the bloom off of his rose. When that happened we should have reversed it. to paraphrase "Yugoslavia as excellent experience to learn from mistakes fbo iraq. Think that is fruitless. What i learn is that once Tito was dead, chaos. Saddam is Tito, in iraq, albeit with far more violence and repression. Once tito(saddam)or Humpty Dumpty is dead cant put the pieces back together. If they should be three separate states, so be it, rather than face another crisis in the next decade. How does iran view a Kurdish state? Do they have the same fear as Turkey of that state encrroaching on its territory? mike