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To: Aggie who wrote (32082)	11/24/1998 12:33:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

Aggie, My understanding is that Iraq had a higher standard of living than any other Arab county before the war. The articles (both by the same author) that George & I cited do provide one concrete statistic, to wit: "The per capita income of Iraq has gone from $2,900 a year to $60 a year." (Do not know whether that number was adjusted for inflation.) Here is a page that provides links to a lot of articles about the suffering of the Iraqi people under sanctions: fourier.dur.ac.uk:8000/~dma3md/index.html As to the matter of air strikes: I oppose the "lone cowboy" approach in general, and with regard to Iraq in particular. Bush should have taken out Saddam when he had the opportunity. If Saddam was a "Hitler", as Bush maintained, then there was no excuse for leaving him in power. Now we're stuck with Saddam, and there is no way to put together another Gulf War-type coalition. Phooey. No exit. No nothing. jbe