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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (104053)	7/4/2003 12:23:52 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Iraq was hardly a a humanitarian catastrophe on the same scale as many places in Africa. I think it is the hypocritical tack taken by our administration (now that they can't find the WMD's, or produce anything like a credible thread to the US) in it's attempt to paint this war of self defense in the shiny new colors of humanitarian relief that annoys people. Were we truly humanitarians we wouldn't have used Iraq as a proxy to kill Iranians, and we would have done something about Iraq long before this (and we would have done it with the rest of the world), and we would have been doing something about Africa. We are not humanitarians- we are a capitalist nation, out for ourselves. This is fine, but let's not pretend we are anything else- because even if we can fools ourselves, the rest of the world isn't as interested in our self deception. Strange twisted self interest, masquerading as humanitarianism, looks worse than no humanitarianism at all- imo.