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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (176508)	11/30/2005 12:15:54 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Yep, non-binding,but a pretty good reflection of our standing in the world. The only reason other countries don't violate it is because they still want to do business with us. When they wake up and find out we are a bankrupt debtor nation, they just may decide to ignore it. Or the world may give us the embargo treatment ourselves. "I guess you'd prefer the US to be the leader in enabling totalitarian regimes to remain in power?" Wouldn't be the first time... ============================================== Phantom WMDs Where are they? The world is waiting. AUSTIN, Texas -- The sour joke is: "Of course we know the Iraqis have weapons of mass destruction. We have the receipts." At this point, the administration would probably be delighted if it could find the WMDs the Reagan administration gave Saddam Hussein. At least it could point to some WMDs. workingforchange.com and usaid.gov and craigmurray.co.uk ============================================== and, believe it or not, Bush's Faustian Deal With the Taliban By Robert Scheer Published May 22, 2001 in the Los Angeles Times Enslave your girls and women, harbor anti-U.S. terrorists, destroy every vestige of civilization in your homeland, and the Bush administration will embrace you. All that matters is that you line up as an ally in the drug war, the only international cause that this nation still takes seriously. That's the message sent with the recent gift of $43 million to the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan, the most virulent anti-American violators of human rights in the world today. The gift, announced last Thursday by Secretary of State Colin Powell, in addition to other recent aid, makes the U.S. the main sponsor of the Taliban and rewards that "rogue regime" for declaring that opium growing is against the will of God. So, too, by the Taliban's estimation, are most human activities, but it's the ban on drugs that catches this administration's attention. robertscheer.com Is Ethopia totalitarian? Pakistan? Some more.. omnicenter.org Is that enuf for you? Rat