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To: The Perfect Hedge who wrote (4143)	12/1/1997 8:51:00 PM
From: John Carpenter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

A couple of weeks ago, Secretary of State Albright openly discussed the possibility of increasing humanitarian aid via increased oil sales in exchange for allowing U.N. inspectors (including Americans) to return. President Clinton ordered Albright not to mention this again in public, because many Americans rightly viewed this as appeasement. The PUBLIC American stance was to be no quid pro quo. So the Russians declared a deal that appeared to have no quid pro quo. Surprise, surprise, yesterday Bill Richardson(U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.) said he favors more crude sales(even in the face of the U.N. inspectors still being barred from the palaces). It's bad enough to give an appeasement carrot behind the scenes to Sadaam, but to tell me to my face that there was no quid pro quo-that's the coup de gras!