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>I truly believe that that choice > should reside with the people who are going to have to pay the price, the > Iraqi people who live in Iraq. At the moment, it would appear that those who > are agonising over the sacrifices others are going to have to make are > forgetting this in their hope of bringing about an end to the dictator. show me how one can ask the iraqi people (not saddam's regime)? how do you ask in a total police state? my friend recently came back from a trip to iraq. him and his cousin and friend were walking in an empty street and chatting. the friend asked, trying to give an analogy to his comments, "name an evil person, any." my friend from london immediately replied "saddam" - they instantly (his cousin and his friend) jumped on him and covered his mouth, anxiously looking round and sweating purfusely - in case the walls heard. for several days following this incident the two from iraq were very edgy and scared. how do you suppose we get their opinion? regards, yasser ----- Original Message ----- From: "Diarmuid" <diarmuidfogarty@onetel.net.uk> To: <casi-discuss@lists.casi.org.uk> Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 10:22 PM Subject: [casi] What is to be done? > Yasser asks what he is to do. My answer, for what little it is worth, is to > do what your conscience dictates. If you have come to the conclusion that > bombing your country with nuclear weapons, killing perhaps hundreds of > thousands of your fellow citizens, seizing your country's oil and imposing > restrictions on its economy so that it will remain indebted for the > forseeable future and relegating it to a truly Third World position is > better than the torment that the Iraqi people have to survive these days, > then that is your decision and, ultimately, you have to justify it to nobody > other than yourself. > > In the meantime, it is worth pondering on how unexpected most revolutions > have been in history. I, for one, would be dubious of any political party > who was to say 'We can't do anything for the next thirty years'. Your choice > isn't merely between the abstract of a puppet government and the evil of the > dictatorship. It is between the current terror of the dictatorship (which, > if it is to be believed that has Saddam at the centre, can only be expected > to last as long as he does) or a long lasting slavery with thousands more > dead within the next few months and ecological disaster that could result in > death and illness for the next few decades. I truly believe that that choice > should reside with the people who are going to have to pay the price, the > Iraqi people who live in Iraq. At the moment, it would appear that those who > are agonising over the sacrifices others are going to have to make are > forgetting this in their hope of bringing about an end to the dictator. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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