> From: John D. Giorgis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > France, as we know, very frequently has had > its own anti-American motiviations, as well as some serious oil contracts > with Saddam Hussein on the line. Given that France has been lobbying for > years to *end* sanctions and *end* inspections in Iraq, it is hardly > imaginable that we could suddenly encourage them to forcibly enforce > inspections.
You mean the same way Cheney was: <<http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId= 8498>> Perhaps even more troubling, at the same time Cheney was doing business with Iraq, he launched a public broadside against sanctions laws designed to cut off funds to regimes like Iran, which the State Department listed as a state sponsor of terrorism. In 1998, Cheney traveled to Kuala Lumpur to attack his own country's terrorism policies for being too strict. Under the headline, "Former US Defence Secretary Says Iran-Libya Sanctions Act 'Wrong,'" the Malaysian News Agency reported that Cheney "hit out at his government" and said sanctions on terrorist countries were "ineffective, did not provide the desired results and [were] a bad policy." Two years later, Cheney traveled to another country to demand America weaken restrictions on doing business with Iran's petroleum industry, despite Clinton administration warnings that Iranian oil revenues could be used to fund terrorism. "We're kept out of [Iran] primarily by our own government, which has made a decision that U.S. firms should not be allowed to invest significantly in Iran," he told an oil conference in Canada. "I think that's a mistake." <End quote> Perhaps we can change it to read: Dick Cheney, as we know, very frequently has had his own anti-American motiviations, as well as some serious oil contracts with Saddam Hussein on the line. Given that Dick Cheney has been lobbying for years to *end* sanctions and *end* inspections in Iraq, it is hardly imaginable that we could suddenly encourage Him to forcibly enforce inspections. ------ "No one is useless; they can always serve as a bad example." _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
