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Dear Saibal, "The number of Iraqi civilian casualties will be of the same order as the number of victims of 9/11", you write. Didn't you read my mail of 9 june 2002 about civilian casualties? I'll send part of it to you again. "Carel De Rooy, UNICEF-responsable in Baghdad, told us off the record that there has been a study about the effects of a limited American invasion, only to topple SH and to turnover Iraqi leadership. The results of this study are quite astonishing: there would be hundreds of thousands of deaths among the civilian population, mainly because of the collapse of the rationing system and the vulnerable Iraqi economy. If I know these facts, surely the CIA-funded and/or US-government funded Iraqi opposition must know these facts. If you support an invasion, knowing these facts, can you call yourself a friend of the Iraqi people? What "human rights" are you defending? And should such people be able to express their "independent opinion" on an anti-sanctions-list? I don't think so. "I just wonder when their conscience will, if ever, catch up with them?" Dirk Adriaensens. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Saibal Mitra" <smitra@zonnet.nl> To: "Diarmuid" <diarmuidfogarty@onetel.net.uk> Cc: <casi-discuss@lists.casi.org.uk> Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 4:08 PM Subject: Re: [casi] Campaign Against Sanctions? > > > ----- Origineel Bericht ----- > Van: "Diarmuid" <diarmuidfogarty@onetel.net.uk> > Datum: Zaterdag, September 14, 2002 12:33 pm > Onderwerp: Re: [casi] Campaign Against Sanctions? > > > 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. > > I agree. The number of Iraqi civilian casualties will be of the same > order as the number of victims of 9/11. I fail to see how one can > justify this. > > People who advocate regime change in Iraq also have to answer this > question. If we had better intelligence about Saddam's plans in August > 1990, the international community could have warned Saddam that we > would not accept a ``regime change´´ in Kuwait. If Saddam had backed > off then, wouldn't it be likely that Saddam would now be a U.S. ally in > the war against terror? > > Rumsfeld visiting Saddam to negotiate the use of Iraqi air-fields and > military bases to implement regime change in Iran? > > Saibal Mitra > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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