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To: zonder who wrote (1281)	5/14/2003 12:46:26 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 20773

Your problem is you don't understand there is basically no difference between a dem and republican. They both play up there own differences to keep the people who believe worked up. The only slight difference is they both play to different special interest groups that help get them elected to the gravy train. Yes, you are right, they're all imposters. You pass the test you now understand how things get done over here. When they bow their head in prayer or fall ass over tea kettle in religious rapture it has all been carefully staged. Anything Rand or Orwell might have imagined the future to be is child play compared to what it really turned out to be.

To: zonder who wrote (1281)	5/14/2003 2:05:46 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

Some clarification on the opposition to removing the Iraqi sanctions: <<< ... Yet the way that the sanctions work is not the way they used to. The Sanctions Committee automatically approves most imports without any requirement for deliberation. Furthermore, the biggest bureaucratic delays were created by deliberate U.S. understaffing, so that there were never enough people to review all the proposed contracts (see Joy Gordon's article "Cool War: Economic Sanctions as a Weapon of Mass Destruction, Harper's, November 2002). Finally, all members of the Security Council have indicated willingness to cooperate in expediting the release of all goods required for immediate needs ... >>> alternet.org In short, the sanctions aren't preventing food from being imported, as they were before the war. So, the only reason to lift them is to legitimize America's colonization of Iraq and to commence the plunder.