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To: KyrosL who wrote (20053)	12/15/2003 7:24:46 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793568

This is no leftist dream. Dreams are all you have left, KL. The Left is in total despair as the Economy and Iraq improve. Four more years of Bush looks more and more like a certainty. With a sixty vote margin in the Senate. That is why the Left is hollering for International Socialist UN help and trying to raise money overseas.

To: KyrosL who wrote (20053)	12/15/2003 10:15:56 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 793568

What you keep sliding past is who were we to say "yea" or "nay". In 1987, Reagan called for an embargo against selling arms to either Iran or Iraq, and sanctions against any country who did that, but was met with lukewarm response from allies. In 1989, the US banned the export of so-called "dual use" technology to Iraq. Without multilateral cooperation, our ban was fruitless. Iraq, as well as Syria, Libya, and Iran continued to import the technology and the feedstocks from other nations, including France and Germany. We weren't nearly as powerful then, the Cold War was still in full swing. And afterwards, Saddam could continue to buy from China and North Korea and Pakistan. Someone always wants money.