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Dear list members, Anyone who has followed the public statements of US or British officials on Iraq will see that a small set of misleading statements are repeatedly made (e.g. simple explanations of the differences between nutrition in Iraqi Kurdistan and the rest of the country, a failure to explain that the 1991 version of "oil for food", rejected by Iraq, would have offered less oil sales than the UN deemed necessary to meet Iraq's minimum needs, etc). As these statements are likely to continue to recur it therefore seems sensible to assemble a response to them. I therefore wondered whether there might be people on this list who might be willing to (i) come up with a list of statements of this sort; and (ii) develop answers to them, which could be put on CASI's website. Three sources for the first come to mind: Albright's Personal View in the Financial Times on 2 August, Hain's comment in the Independent on 7 August and the State Department's own "myths and facts" page at http://www.state.gov/www/regions/nea/iraq_myths-facts.html If anyone is interested in this, please let me know so that we can discuss how to proceed with this. Thanks! Colin Rowat ****************************************************** Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq http://www.casi.org.uk fax 0870 063 5022 are you on our announcements list? ****************************************************** 393 King's College www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~cir20 Cambridge CB2 1ST tel: +44 (0)7768 056 984 England fax: +44 (0)8700 634 984 -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a discussion list run by the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq For removal from list, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk Full details of CASI's various lists can be found on the CASI website: http://welcome.to/casi