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To: Thomas M. who wrote (11259)	5/28/2004 8:20:41 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20773

Remembering 2000 - Gore: Saddam Must Go Wednesday, 28 June, 2000, 00:32 GMT 01:32 UK By Jeff Phillips in Washington US Vice-President Al Gore has told Iraqi opposition politicians that the United States remains committed to the overthrow of President Saddam Hussein. There can be no peace for the Middle East so long as Saddam is in a position to brutalise his people and threaten his neighbours. Al Gore Meeting a delegation from the Iraqi National Congress (INC), he also reiterated the administration's view that the Iraqi leader should be tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Clinton administration is trying to beef up the INC after nearly 10 years of sanctions on Iraq have brought the world no closer to bringing down the Iraqi leader. It has allocated $8m this year to the INC to help to re-build the organisation. Vote winner The INC will also be given some money to provide for the welfare of refugees and displaced Iraqis. More than $250,000 has already been handed over. Although the government has sometimes been reluctant in the past to spell out its direct support for a campaign to overthrow the Iraqi leader, a strategy that would topple him without the involvement of American troops has strong support in the US Congress. Ahmed Chalabi: Multi-million dollar funding from US In a presidential election year, President Clinton, and more to the point, presidential candidate Mr Gore, might also find it useful to demonstrate rather more determination to change things in Iraq than he has in the past. The INC's nine-man delegation was led by its president, Ahmed Chalabi, and included representatives of the two main Kurdish parties, the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. ..... Meanwhile, the INC has urged the administration to speed up the contract-approval process for sending medicines, spare parts and humanitarian supplies into Iraq and to find a means of diverting oil revenues away from the regime and into the hands of the Iraqi people. The State Department says that it regards the INC as a "representative and authoritative voice for the people of Iraq". It expects whatever new regime replaces the current one to emerge "very much from within Iraq". And it is clear that the INC is being prepared to take on this responsibility and to act as a legitimising counterpart to whatever emerges, presumably from among disaffected military officers in Baghdad. news.bbc.co.uk

To: Thomas M. who wrote (11259)	5/29/2004 5:58:08 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 20773

Recommended summer read: Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order by Mark Crispin Miller amazon.com Editorial Reviews About the Author Mark Crispin Miller is a professor of media studies at New York University and the author of The Bush Dyslexicon. He lives in New York City. *Book Description* A mordant and passionate exposé of the right-wing threat to American democracy and freedom. Read a newspaper or catch the news on television, and you might get the impression that America's current leadership is "mainstream": perhaps a bit more conservative and in its foreign policy more belligerent than its predecessors, but still a federal authority that functions within America's political traditions. But as Mark Crispin Miller argues here with great clarity and effect, we are in fact living in a state that would appall the Founding Fathers: a state that is neither democratic nor republican, and no more "conservative" than it is liberal. He exposes the Bush Republicans' contempt for democratic practice, their bullying religiosity, their reckless militarism, their apocalyptic views of the economy and the planet, and-above all-their emotional dependence on sheer hatefulness. Abraham Lincoln once observed that, if the United States should ever be subverted, "it will be conquered from within." And that is exactly what has happened.