At 10:31 PM 5/16/2004 -0700 Doug Pensinger wrote: >"Before the United States launched "the optional war" in Iraq, >practitioners of nonviolence were advocating concrete alternatives that >would have sought to depose Saddam Hussein without war. One plan called >for a massive humanitarian assistance program to the Iraqi people while >launching a campaign to declare Hussein a war criminal and to carry out >even more rigorous arms inspections throughout the country. Of course, >many of us nonviolent activists were dismissed as being hopelessly naive.
No, not naiive. It was actually called "Oil-for-Food", and 12+ years of negotiations and inspections. It failed. JDG - Cue Ivanova, Maru
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