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Dear Larry, Thank you for question, hope all is fine on your side as well. In my opinion, simple and humble questions can give birth to the most interesting debates. As far as I am concerned, I would answer a big NO. The United States should not protect Kuwait, the United Nations should. And by the United Nations I don't mean an assembly dominated by a few countries but a democratic place were every nation has a right to speak. I was astounded to learn a few weeks ago, on this discussion list, that the Iraqi issue couldn't be discussed by the whole assembly as long as the Security council was dealing with it. Do you agree ? Peace, Nazim >From: Mark Al-Sinjakli <scouseanthmark@yahoo.co.uk> >To: Lar4mccain@aol.com, nelsbacon@earthlink.net, info@mashriq.org >CC: iac-discussion@egroups.com, soc-casi-discuss@lists.cam.ac.uk >Subject: Re: "Killing Iraq 1990-20_ _ " >Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 10:40:26 +0100 (BST) >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Received: from [131.111.8.49] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id >MHotMailBB82017D005BD820F3A8836F0831AC920; Fri Sep 08 02:51:01 2000 >Received: from eximhlpr by navy.csi.cam.ac.uk with local (Exim 3.13 #1)id >13XKeY-00059b-00for soc-casi-discuss-outgoing@lists.cam.ac.uk; Fri, 08 Sep >2000 10:40:58 +0100 >Received: from [204.71.202.191] (helo=web3106.mail.yahoo.com)by >navy.csi.cam.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 3.13 #1)id 13XKeX-00059J-00for >soc-casi-discuss@lists.cam.ac.uk; Fri, 08 Sep 2000 10:40:57 +0100 >Received: from [212.139.148.104] by web3106.mail.yahoo.com; Fri, 08 Sep >2000 10:40:26 BST >From soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk Fri Sep 08 02:52:33 2000 >Message-ID: <20000908094026.26016.qmail@web3106.mail.yahoo.com> >Sender: soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk >Precedence: bulk > >Dear Larry > >I think most on the list would agree that there needs >to be some sort of international police force to >prevent expansionist activity, and that there was a >humanitarian case as well as an economic one for the >UN, led by the US, opposing and rebutting the Iraqi >invasion of Kuwait. > >Which leads us to three related questions: > >1. Why was the Iraqi regime effectively given the >green light for the invasion by a high-ranking US >official just before the invasion? > >2. Why was there no earlier condemnation or >intervention when the Iraqi regime committed other >atrocities, for example the use of chemical weapons >against its own people in Halabja? Indeed as was >recently stated on the CASI discussion list members of >the UK foreign office were told to give the 'correct >positive response' on Saddam Hussein's regime when >asked, as Iraq was an ally of the west at that time. > >3. Putting to one side whether the US has acted in a >morally consistent way up until the invasion, can we >honestly say that the seige currently being laid on >Iraq, resulting in the deaths of 500,000 children and >rising, is a proportional and necessary response to >this 10 year old invasion? > >Asking for a yes/no response is an unnacceptable >simplification because the US and UK actively >supported Saddam Hussein for years in spite of being >aware of numerous atrocities: therefore it is >insulting to see an over-simplified portrayal of them >as the good guys and others as the bad; global >politics is never so clear-cut, except in films. > >All the best > >Mark > >--- Lar4mccain@aol.com wrote: > Friends > > > > Hi. Hope that all is well with everyone. Let > > me pose this question as a > > yes and no question. With the Iraqi threat to > > Kuwait, do you think that the > > United States should protect Kuwait (regardless of > > whether oil is in interest > > or not)? For I was in Kuwait and yes, I know that I > > was there for oil. I > > accept that..yet I also saw the faces of Kuwaiti > > kids waving to me and saying > > thank you for saving them. > > > > For them it wasnt about oil and at that moment, > > it wasnt for me either. > > > > In Gods Peace > > Larry Provost > > US Army Veteran > > Operation Desert Thunder > > -- > > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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://www.casi.org.uk > > >===== >Mark Al-Sinjakli > >email: scouseanthmark@yahoo.co.uk > mark@casi.org.uk > >____________________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk >or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie >-- >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >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://www.casi.org.uk _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. 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