RE: Benjamin Netanyahu on Bush's Speech

[Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLBD/BGM/SVM/SGM]

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> Van: The Fool [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Verzonden: Monday, September 24, 2001 5:52 PM
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> Onderwerp: Re: Benjamin Netanyahu on Bush's Speech

> The U.S. has never had any sanctions in place for _Food_.  That was
> what the whole 'food for oil' programme was about.  The Iraqies still
> starve, why?  The Iraqi government want them to starve.  And these
> people fully support the Iraqi government.  The U.S. does not want the
> people of Iraq to starve.  And last but not least, the Iraqi government
> blames the U.S. for why it's people suffer.  You can't blame the U.S.
> for why these people starve.

I think you can, at least to some extent. It is mostly the US that insists
that sanctions against Iraq be kept in place. The US has offered food, but
demands that in return it will be given access to Iraqi military
installations. Iraq refused to allow access, and the US subsequently decided
not to give food.

IOW, the US does not get what it wants from the Iraqi government, and
punishes the Iraqi citizens for it.


Jeroen

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