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To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (91442)	4/9/2003 8:22:04 AM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

My point, and the discussion, was what methods will the US employ to enforce the occupation of Iraq ? Will that include depopulating areas and killing crops ? Yes. That is what I thought. My point is that your point and examples are wrong. The South Vietnamese government moved the villages. The spraying was done to North Vietnamese military infiltration routes deep in the jungle...not crops. And... The Phoenix Program that you said was responsible for both actions was not involved in either.

To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (91442)	4/9/2003 9:58:20 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

My point, and the discussion, was what methods will the US employ to enforce the occupation of Iraq ? If we're smart, and certain Arab nations willing, we'll coordinate having nations like Egypt, Kuwait, Morrocco, as well as the US and other western nations... etc, send police officers to supervise and restructure the rebuilding law and order in Iraq. Will that include depopulating areas and killing crops? I hardly think we could ever compete with the environmental and ecological terrorism Saddam used, such as draining entire marshes in the south of Iraq... My answer was that we don't know the future, but these methods were used in the past by the US in Vietnam. So they are not unthinkable in Iraq now. Nor should it be unthinkable that we'll see civil order and democracy fostered as occurred after the Invasion of Grenada and Panama... Neither of which were defoliated, nor suffered the destruction of thier crops... The Vietnam analogy is hardly appropriate here Sarmad. The only way it could be were if Iran or Syria were to attempt to launch an armed subversion of any new Iraqi government (and we were inept enough not to cut off their supply routes). But that said, I'm all for encouraging responsible local Arab states to participate in restoring order and internationalizing the rebuilding of the country. I'm just wary of permitting the UN to play too large of a role except humanitarian assistance. Hawk