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mathon@tss.com (John D. Mathon (593-0923)) writes:

>In article <1991Feb4.184805.236@nntp-server.caltech.edu>, anne@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Anneliese Lilje) writes:
>> >In article <1991Feb4.174140.17055@tss.com> mathon@tss.com (John D. Mathon (593-0923)) writes:
>> >The fight cannot be about Oil because the US is living fine without any oil
>> >from Kuwait or Iraq. 
>> 
>> A friend of mine brought up the question the other day... Would we be
>> in Saudi if the main Kuwaiti export was Broccoli?

>Listen carefully, Anne.

>If Saddam Hussein could make $20 billion a year from selling broccoli and
>build Nuclear bombs and threaten Israel, then I AM SURE that we would be
>just as interested.

>The real question is not oil.  The real question is who is Saddam Hussein
>and what does he want.

And what he is able to do. I do not shoot a child with a banana in his
hand, because he is shouting "I'm gonna kill you". As a matter of fact,
there is no nuclear bomb in iraq, and it seems (i accept as an excuse
that this had not been clear earlier), that the scuds are not able
to carry chemical warheads. There are several reasons for this:

1. Iraq has no technology available to let the scud explode at 
"correct" heigth.

2. Also it has no technology available to cool the chemical warhead
during flight. The chemical used are sensible to heat.

I'm sleeping better since I got to know that.

I was convinced, when war (sorry, bombardment) started, that SH
would use this weapons immediately. He did not. Do you have another
explanation ?
-- 
Olaf Schlueter, Sandkuhle 4-6, 2300 Kiel 1, FRG, schlut@oski.toppoint.de
     Stop bombardment. Continue embargo. Start negotiations. NOW!
700 tons on Dresden killed 60000. 18000 tons on Bagdad killed (censored).