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The situation has nothing to do with a "new world order" or punishing the "butcher of Baghdad" (since they created him in the first place). It is purely an issue of money - like too many things in this world. Every day that Iraq is under sanctions, Saudi Arabia (having absorbed virtually all of Iraq's OPEC quota) have their revenues increased by something in the range of £30 million. And yet the Saudis are out of cash! A country with a relatively small population. It is obvious that this is going straight to fund the declining arms industries of the US and the UK, whose necessity has diminished since the end of the cold war. I wouldn't mind so much if the US administration were just honest about it. What I can't stand is the deception and the pretense that that bitch Albright is travelling around the world encouraging a strike for the greater good of mankind! -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a discussion list run by Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To be removed/added, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk, NOT the whole list. Archived at http://linux.clare.cam.ac.uk/~saw27/casi/discuss.html