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To: cheryl williamson who wrote (53649)	4/8/2003 8:18:21 PM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

U.S. FORCES BLOW UP IRAQI PIPELINE TO SYRIA ABU DHABI [MENL] -- U.S. special operations forces are said to have blown up an Iraqi pipeline that delivered more than 200,000 barrels of oil a day to Syria. The Kuwaiti Al Rai Al Aam daily reported on Wednesday that U.S. forces sabotaged the Iraqi oil pipeline to Syria last week in an operation in northwestern Iraq. The newspaper quoted U.S. sources as saying the forces also blew up a railroad link between Iraq and Syria. Until the start of the U.S.-led war against Iraq, Syria obtained 250,000 barrels of oil per day through two pipelines that stemmed from the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk. One pipeline reached the Syrian port of Banyas for export. The other provided oil directly to the Syrian national energy grid. The U.S. sources said the destruction of the main pipeline came amid a warning by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for a halt to Syrian military supplies to the regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. The newspaper reported that on Monday the pumping station on the Iraqi side of the pipeline had broken down.

To: cheryl williamson who wrote (53649)	4/9/2003 1:47:14 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Democracy is, without question, the most advanced system of governance in the world. But that alone is insufficient to rationalize the waging of a conflict of "liberation". Well, first of all its not just the installation of democracy that is the rational for war, it is also the elimination of the dictatorial government that existed under Saddam all the well documented wrongdoings and misery that it produced. And as for arguing that installation of democracy is not a justification for war, what is? In which cases (other than a response to a direct attack or blatantly impending attack) is war justified, if not in the current case?