Question: Could the oil coming out of the Syrian pipeline have come from anywhere other than Iraq? I don't have a pipeline map in my mind. Any info on where it was then being exported to? Iraqi oil was going by truck tanker into Turkey.
Lawry > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Harry Pollard > Sent: Fri, May 30, 2003 9:17 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Futurework] More American troops to Iraq > > > Lawry, > > Well said. > > Perhaps sanctions should never have been imposed by the United Nations. > Also, they shouldn't have taken such a big cut from the allowed exports. > > I called the Syrian pipeline "illegal" because they were > exporting outside > of UN inspection. (But, obviously with quotes.) Plenty too, for I recall > that the Syrian ports were very busy loading on to a continual line-up of > tankers. > > Harry > ------------------------------------------ > Lawrence wrote: > > >Hi, Harry, > > > >The 'sanctions' are a fancy word for blockade. Blockades are > illegal unless > >a state of war exists, and even then fall under a set of rules > that specify > >what is permissible and what is not. The US has not been at war > with Iraq, > >and thus a blockade itself is illegal. If there is any doubt > about this, the > >justifications for it given by the countries that sought to > impose sanctions > >specified that it was to create conditions within Iraq that > would lead the > >people to rise against Saddam Hussein. This is in itself an illegal > >strategy: a civilian population cannot be made to suffer by external > >countries for the sins of its leadership; they cannot be held > hostage under > >the many rules, including the Fourth Geneva Convention. > > > >You are right to put the word 'illegal' in parentheses when you > refer to the > >operation of Iraq's oil pipelines, for the blockade itself is of dubious > >legality. > > > >Yes, blowing it up was a silly thing to do, but a minor > silliness compared > >to the greater one.... > > > >Cheers, > >Lawry > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Harry Pollard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Fri, May 30, 2003 12:18 PM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: RE: [Futurework] More American troops to Iraq > > > > > > > > > Lawry, > > > > > > At the beginning of the war with Iran, Syria closed the pipeline > > > - because > > > Iran asked them to. It was never officially reopened. > > > > > > However, it was thought that Iraq was sending oil through the > once closed > > > pipeline that was not part of the sanctions count - thus > > > "illegal" in quotes. > > > > > > Whether, or not, it was recently blown up is beside the > point, though it > > > seems a silly thing to do - but then . . . . . > > > > > > Harry > > > **************************************************** > Harry Pollard > Henry George School of Social Science of Los Angeles > Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 > Tel: (818) 352-4141 -- Fax: (818) 353-2242 > http://home.attbi.com/~haledward > **************************************************** > > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
