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hello everyone It seems that we are getting bogged down in specific cases. Everyone knows that during a "war" civilians will be injured or killed. The point in this case, I believe, should be that the military action was not justified EVEN IF NO CIVILIANS HAD BEEN HURT. The longer the UK and US support sanctions and military action against Iraq regardless of the rest of the World, the more it appears that they are only a a trade-off with other Middle-East nations in a "Keep-Iraq-out-of-oil-cartels-in-exchange-for-weapons- purchase" deal. If Iraq had really committed acxtion justifiable of military action, I think most people would accept that a few civilian casualties were unavoidable and really Saddam's fault. By concentrating on the civilian injuries of Iraq, we are playing into the hands of the UK and the US (and also Iraq if you anti-Iraq) by avoiding what is the REAL issue behind the crisis - MONEY! Even if it is a more complicated issue (and one we might not like to believe about our new "sleaze-free" MPs), surely trying to win public support for our campaign through what is not (I believe) the important issue is disinformation itself? Andrew Macbeth (I may not have time to respond to individual replies, but I welcome comments or corrections! I also apologise for bad typing!!!) ______________________ Andrew Macbeth | AndyMac, AndyMac, CC2 Cromwell Court | His new sig's a load of c..*TRIPE* Sidney Sussex College | Makes no sense, not a bit, Cambridge CB2 3HU | Total utter pile of s..*POO* ______________________| -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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