You people the so called Rhode scholars are simply wasting your time... like
I saied, there is going to be a war between the allies and Iraq. ..and
there is nothing you can do about it. Uncle Bush's Credibility among members
of the International community is on the line. If fact the credibility of the
US is on the line...here.
After all this rhetoric in the past days, weeks, months, about wars , do you
people really think that uncle Bush can afford to bark down and avoid wars..
NO way!!
Saddam Hussien A@#! is as good as GONE!! You can take that to the bank! it is
just unfortunate that a lot of people are going to die!!
Matek
No War With Iraq: Rhodes Scholars At Oxford
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South African Press Association (Johannesburg)
January 7, 2003
Posted to the web January 7, 2003
Johannesburg
South African Rhodes Scholars at Oxford University have been joined by 75
Rhodes Scholars from 16 other countries to form an international lobby group
opposing war against Iraq.
The group, Rhodes Scholars Against the War (RSAW), is meeting representatives
of various governments to push for diplomacy rather than a military
confrontation with Iraq.
They have so far met with former Central Intelligence Agency director and
Rhodes Scholar James Woolsey, and will meet former president Nelson Mandela,
who has voiced opposition to the war.
They are also scheduled to hold talks with former United States president
Bill Clinton and with the American Ambassador in London at the end of January.
The prestigious Rhodes Scholarship celebrates its centenary this year. Among
its alumni are Clinton, South African High Court judge Edwin Cameron and
Laurie Ackermann of the Constitutional Court.
RSAW spokesman, John Kuhn, told Sapa on Tuesday that too little thought had
been put into the potential consequences of a war.
"If there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and this, crucially, has
not been proven these weapons are far more likely to be deployed during a
war," he said.
"(Iraqi President) Saddam Hussein is not harmless and far from innocent, but
South Africa has shown that there are other ways of engaging with him than by
threat of violence.
"We urge the South African government to proceed with its strategy of
engagement with the Hussein regime.
"Our country provides a unique perspective on peaceful conflict resolution,
as we've already shown in central Africa, Libya and Northern Ireland," Kuhn
said.
