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[casi] Motives for Attack on Iraq




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20, New Road,
Hailey, Oxon
OX29 9TZ
England

                                           2nd September,2002   01993 775080

Dear Sir,

I was impressed with the article by Masamichi Hanabusa on the noises which US
keeps making about necessity to attack Iraq. As with Japan, Europe is
singularly unimpressed with this claimed necessity. We have heard or seen no
valid evidence that Saddam is a threat to the world. He may be a very
unpleasant man but that is not grounds for war. The world maybe a safer place
if there were a regime change in Iraq but the same would almost certainly be
true of US or Israel or many places.

To a simple Englishman, it would seem that the motive for the war would be a
mixture of 'face', arising from the failure of President Bush' father to
'finish' Saddam, and US wanting to control Iraqi oil, and finally to Israel's
wish to have an excuse for final ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

Yours faithfully,

Christopher Leadbeater

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