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To: one_less who wrote (12593)	11/3/1998 3:50:00 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

I don't believe those numbers.

To: one_less who wrote (12593)	11/3/1998 4:19:00 PM
From: Fangorn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Brees, re><<Bush should have sent Stormin' Norman to the heart of Baghdad in the first place.>> Maybe, several people on this thread saw it as a catch 22 at the time< Sorry Abdul, but SI not to mention this thread didn't even exist at the time. And as is so obvious to everyone now, not finishing off in Baghdad was the true Catch-22.

To: one_less who wrote (12593)	11/3/1998 4:36:00 PM
From: mrknowitall	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

Brees - what on earth leads you to believe the lifting of the embargo is going to help the people Saddam is allowing to die? He is using them as pawns in his sick game of retaining power. Lifting of the sanctions will do nothing for them. Any aid will be siphoned off to Saddam's friends and any cash inflow will be redirected at acquiring technology to strike back. As to us spending billions of dollars - on what? The UN oversight teams? Nonsense. You are entirely correct that the strategy has failed to accomplish its original goal. Now the question is what to do? You don't expect us to believe that he will somehow magically transform himself into a benefactor to the people has has systematically tried to destroy, do you? You really feel that the innocents are going to be the recipients of some newly found humanity on his part? In your dreams - or only in the carefully orchestrated news accounts if the sanctions were dropped. If the sanctions were to be dropped today, a few years from now when he's shipped a nuclear device upriver to Washington or into NY harbor and killed and injured millions of Americans, or smuggled a deadly nerve agent into a huge office complex or mall, we can all get together and applaud our earlier sensitivity and generosity. Mr. K.

To: one_less who wrote (12593)	11/3/1998 4:41:00 PM
From: Les H	Respond to of 67261

The earlier article that I posted to you showed that Saddam's troops are preventing villagers from receiving food and supplies even when they get through. From the early 90's, they have destroyed villages and farmland to starve their enemies.

To: one_less who wrote (12593)	11/3/1998 7:02:00 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

<<According to UN estimates the sanctions on Iraq have caused the deaths of 600,000 children since they were imposed in 1990. This is just the children. >> Brees, from what I've seen the 600,000 dead children are a pittance compared to what Sadam killed before the war by draining the swamps. I think the situation should be addressed by the other Moslem nations and don't understand the inaction. Religion in the Mideast is beyond me with the Sunnis against the Shetites [ sorry about the misspellings] and Kurds. A unilateral action by the US is not the answer. We need a trusted leader to put together a real truce.