Jon Gabriel wrote: > >From: Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Re: The right to know: (was CNN morons.) > >Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 08:41:38 -0600 > > > >At 10:29 AM 3/25/03 +0100, Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote: > >>Maybe if we bring some > >>of the horror that our ancestors must have felt whenever they had to fight > >>for > >>their lives we might be a little less likely/gullible to go for the all > >>out war > >>option when there is still some hope for a peacefull resolution. > > > > > >Taking into account the way the Iraqi regime was treating its own people, > >what scenario would have led to a peaceful resolution? > > > > Apparently not UN sanctions, resolutions, condemnation, inspections or > passivity. We have 12 years of precedent that pretty much show beyond doubt > that wouldn't have been effective.
Yet at the first sign of any progress the US sends in the troops. Just keeping up the pressure would have helped a lot. But so would not selling arms to the region in the past have. Unfortunatly neither would have been especially rewarding. And call me paranoid but seen the financial state the US currently is in, they really need to get some revenue. So while I listen to all those financially potentially desastrous plans the Bush government cooks up, it can't help but feel as if the government is already spending money they plan to get from something much like the winning number of a lotery ticket. Unfortunatly only time can tell if I'm just being overtly cynic or if I'm seeing things right. Sonja GCU: Healthy distrust _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
