----- Original Message ----- From: "just john" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 4:34 AM Subject: [BRIN] Diamond/Triangle -- Just a matter of drawing a line
> > "The United States anticipated the collapse of the Iraqi water system early > on. In January 1991, shortly before the Persian Gulf War began and six > months into the sanctions, the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency > projected that, under the embargo, Iraq's ability to provide clean drinking > water would collapse within six months. ..." > > > > Now, if we're messing with a place to such an extent -- to prevent > operations of, say, sewage treatment plants -- don't the people of that > place have to count when we're bragging about "diamond-shaped" economic > structures? First of all, after a while, the sanctions were modified to allow some oil sale to pay for things like the repair of water treatment facilities, food and medicine. Unfortunately, the money was mostly used for weapons instead. But, I will allow that we are responsible for the choices we make, given the fact that Hussein acts as he does. So, what should we do. 1) Lift the sanctions with Hussein in place, accepting the risk of his developing a significant array of WMD, and hoping that some of the $50 billion/year will go to support the people's needs? 2) Keep the sanctions, accepting the fact that he will mistreat his people no matter what? 3) Overthrow his government, and help the new government rebuild the infrastructure? Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
