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To: Scripts who wrote (21730)	10/13/2004 2:16:08 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81092

Ed > What was the reason behind the UN sanctions against Iraq? Overtly, they were the continuation of Operation Desert Storm which we are told was concerned with the "liberation" of Kuwait -- and the sanctions were intended to prevent Iraq rearming, especially with WMD. Tacitly, they were a US tactic designed to impoverish Iraq and in this way soften it up for the subsequent invasion (which occurred in 2003). As Rumsfeld said about the WMD prior to the invasion, "Absence of proof does not mean proof of absence", it is clear in retrospect that the US had every intention to use WMD, and therefore violation of the UN sanctions, as the pretext for the invasion. peace.mennolink.org merip.org progressive.org