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Hello, all. Bush's packaging of old wine in new bottles seems to have done the trick. It seems as if all the Europeans and the mainstream domestic opponents of the war wanted was a change of tone, not of substance. Everything is now back on the shoulders of the movement. Our timetable seems now to be weeks, not months, if one is to believe the pronouncements of U.S. government officials. The White House has put out a new white paper on Iraq, at long last. It's available on the Web, in html or pdf. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/09/20020912.html http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/09/iraqdecade.pdf Like the old State Department report of 1998, it's full of old, well-known truths, old questionable statements, and some new questionable statements (at least new to me) -- for example, there have been persistent claims that the GOI doesn't order enough baby milk through OFF, but now there's a claim that the GOI has actually at times deliberately cut baby milk rations, claiming falsely that the cuts were due to US/UK holds. We'll need the wherewithal to address this and similar claims, and just to figure out what truth they have to them. If any of the many experts on the details of the sanctions who are on this list can shed light on any of the claims, it will be greatly useful to all of us. In solidarity, Rahul Mahajan _______________________________________________ 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