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Sama Hadad's post seems to be another one designed to provoke. It's a tribute to the nature of this list that nobody has risen to the bait. I echo Anai's puzzlement at the claim that there have been a lot of pro-Saddam posts here. I think that Sama confuses concern for the Iraqi people with concern for their dictator. This is precisely what Saddam (and others like him) would want you to do. The Leader is The People. Sama would do well not to swallow such nonsense. As for anti-sanctions/anti-war, war is the supreme sanction, I would have thought. It doesn't get much more severe than dropping burrowing nuclear arms on a country, devastating its environment for thousands of year. Nor more severe than severing the limbs from young children, burning to death mothers and fathers and sentencing swathes of the population to a long and painful death of radiation poisoning. It doesn't get more severe than starving a people to death and then smashing the infrastructure that is responsible for ensuring that they get the little food that they manage to survive on. Nor does it get more severe than to destroy their hospitals, wreck their schools and poison their water. A "regime change" is a new, sanitised way of saying a "war". War means that innocent people are forced to pay a price that people like Sama Hadad will never be asked to pay. Thus, it seems fair that people like Sama Hadad should never be in a position to decide whether or not that price is worth it. _______________________________________________ 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