On Mon, 17 May 2004 21:29:40 -0400, JDG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 >
The administration dismissed a plan that had broad international and bi-partisan support for sending thousands of US troops in to assist inspectors in massive no-knock WMD searches. They had already decided a few months after 9/11 that they would take over Iraq as recommended in the pre-election PNAC plans. and the first NSC meeting concluded with an order for the Army to present options for military invasion. GLD - Liberal Maru
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