----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 22, 2000 8:36 PM Subject: [STOPNATO] Bush Advisor Proposes Iraq Policy STOP NATO: NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM http://sg.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/world/ap/article.html?s=singapore/headlines/00 0520/world/ap/Bush_Adviser_Proposes_Iraq_Policy.html May 20, 2000 Bush Adviser Proposes Iraq Policy by Barry Schweid AP Diplomatic Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) - A senior adviser to George W. Bush proposed seizing control of parts of Iraq as a way of undermining President Saddam Hussein. Denouncing the Clinton administration's policy on Iraq as ``a debacle,´´ Robert Zoellick, a former State Department official, said Friday that U.S. efforts against Saddam should include ``slowly taking away pieces of his territory.´´ Saddam lost control of northern Iraq in the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War in which the United States and its allies reversed his annexation of Kuwait. The adviser to Bush, the Republican presidential candidate, suggested southern Iraq was a good target for the United States. But he also said the Clinton administration had lost the confidence of Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries by not taking tough stands. ``You have to reverse the momentum,´´ he said. While agreeing Saddam was a menace, Leon Fuerth, national security adviser to Vice President Al Gore, the Democratic presidential candidate, said, ``There is no country that wants to undertake that policy´´ of seizing territory from Iraq. In a debate sponsored by The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a private research group, Fuerth said Saddam eventually would bring about his own downfall, making a mistake that would give the United States a ``legitimate right´´ to depose him. Fuerth faulted former President Bush, the Republican aspirant's father, for Saddam's survival after the Gulf war. The U.S.-led coalition ``had a sword against his neck but would not use it,´´ Fuerth said. He said the Clinton administration had found scant support for taking tough actions against Saddam, even for imposing economic sanctions. ``We´ve struggled with some of our best friends to maintain the sanctions,´´ Fuerth said. On another topic, Zoellick said President Clinton made a mistake in letting himself by rebuffed by Syrian President Hafez Assad at their meeting in March in Geneva. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright should have set up a more productive summit meeting, Zoellick said. But, he said, Albright has been ``discounted in terms of power and influence.´´ Fuerth, challenging this account, suggested Clinton had expected to make progress with Assad on the stalled Israel-Syria negotiations but the Syrian leader turned out to be ``fickle.´´ Copyright © 1998-2000 Associated Press ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ Advertisement: 15% off Ashford Collection jewelry for Mother's Day! Mom will love these gorgeous pieces handpicked by our expert jewelry buyers - now 15% off and shipped FedEx overnight FREE! Spoiled as a child? Return the favor - get her gift at Ashford.com. http://on.linkexchange.com/?ATID'&AID31 --- from list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
