Chris, Here I am again with my incredible patience. You said:
"Who had installed and armed (incl. with WMD) Saddam in the first place . . " The 2,400 tanks and 400 planes with which Saddam invaded Iran were Soviet. The so-called "weapons of mass destruction" were supplied by the US Centers for Disease Control, which routinely answered requests for biological material from all over the world - including Iraq. After 8 years, Saddam was re-equipped for the final move into an exhausted Iran. By whom? By Russia of course, though no doubt France's 30 latest model Mirage planes armed with exojets killed a lot of Iranians. Interestingly enough, Iran used American F14's and F15's to fight Saddam's Russian planes - and they did very well. A ship - or maybe two - got through the Iraqi blockade and delivered parts for the American planes. I assume they originated somewhere American but of that I'm uncertain. The Kuwaiti venture was no doubt carried out with those Russian tanks and planes that Iraq used to finish off Iran. That wasn't too difficult was it? Harry ******************************************** Henry George School of Social Science of Los Angeles Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 Tel: 818 352-4141 -- Fax: 818 353-2242 http://haledward.home.comcast.net ******************************************** -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christoph Reuss Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 12:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Futurework] Are they going mad? Arthur Cordell wrote: > I don't find the US action all that strange. In fact it seems quite > logical. Why should those countries share in the contracts when they > weren't willing to go along in the first place. What would the WTO say about this? I thought contracts have to be submitted to all bidders? At any rate, the contracts are the result of an illegal act under international law (war of attrition against a sovereign country, plus war crimes), so should be void anyway. > There was an interview with Laura Bush (Larry King) and she in passing > felt it a pity that the French were so intransigent. That a more > united front might have forced Saddam's hand and lessened the need for > armed intervention. So that is the view in the US and is worth considering. Who had installed and armed (incl. with WMD) Saddam in the first place, who had lured him into the Kuwait trap, and who had been bombing Iraq for a decade without removing Saddam ? Not France, anyway. It's the same hypocrisy as with "who saved the world from Hitler"... The world would be much better off if the US didn't create problems to play the great problem-solver afterwards. Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~ SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword "igve". --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.548 / Virus Database: 341 - Release Date: 12/5/2003 _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
