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[ Presenting plain-text part of multi-format email ] 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 _______________________________________________ Sent via the discussion list of the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To unsubscribe, visit http://lists.casi.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/casi-discuss To contact the list manager, email casi-discuss-admin@lists.casi.org.uk All postings are archived on CASI's website: http://www.casi.org.uk