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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (421131)	7/1/2003 11:37:08 AM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

So you're saying that Clinton took actions that resulted, in hundreds of thousands of people dying from lack of medication and starvation just because of domestic Politics? Newt and Starr? I don't believe you. Seems I believe President Clinton is a far better man, than you do. re:"There is plenty of blame to go around. I don't think Clinton could have dropped the sanctions in light of Newt Gingrich and Ken Starr. It was not politically feasible. " Further, sanctions against Cuba are nothing like sanctions against Iraq. Sanctions against Cuba only apply to Americans and American business, except for missile crisis, it was not enforced by a naval blockade of the country, nor does the U.S. Airforce maintain a cap of fighter aircraft over much of Cuba. I believe that Mexico and Canada are Cuba's biggest trading partners, and do not maintain sanctions against Cuba. But if you want to argue that Sanctions do not work and won't get a dictator to bend to the will of the International community be my guest - since it those against the recent Iraq war wanted to continue sanctions - And since Democrats wanted to use sanctions to force Saddam to leave Kuwait. re:"None the less, Iraq was kind of like Cuba, the sanctions were there more for the sake of rhetoric than for international law or common sense."