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

To: TideGlider who wrote (667045)	1/4/2005 12:21:10 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

I'm fairly sure your recollections are incorrect on this, er... 'azzwipe'. Check out the dates, please: 1) At the conclusion of Desert Storm (you know, when Bush I turned back from toppling Saddam) the USA imposed economic sanctions on Iraq... tightening the loophole-ridden weapons embargo we already had on Iraq. 2) At a later date --- and you may be correct on this that it was formally accomplished under Clinton --- the individual sanctions that the US, Britain, and several other countries already had on Iraq were formalized and codified and extended in a UN-approved system of economic sanctions. 3) This system of sanctions was still in-place --- so you are certainly incorrect in this respect --- when Bush II took office... and all during the build-up to the second war and even after.