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myhomesweethome@mts.net wrote:
> X-No-Archive: Yes  On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 15:54:03 GMT, Carter Lee
> <crlee@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:

>>Glen Hallick wrote:
>>
>>>"annemarie" <annemarieko@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>>news:56cf80cd.0303101558.7a8be2c0@posting.google.com...

>>>>It was not only businesses that supplied Iraq after *they gassed their
>>>>own people*  which we ignored at the time because they were going
>>>>after Iran for us - after Iran overthrew our own dictator the Shah.
>>>>See below.  Are these policies we should be proud of just because we
>>>>or Iraq weren't in violation of a UN resolution?  But they hate us
>>>>because we love freedom.  Get real.

>>>Yup the Bush administration brings up Iraq's chemical attacks on the Kurds.
>>>They say how terrible these attacks were, and indeed such is true. However
>>>the Bush administration does not say there were US companies still doing
>>>business with Iraq after those attacks.

>>Yes and you and other American hating leftists are trying to use that 
>>fact to excuse Iraq's refusal to comply with UN resolutions requiring it 
>>to disarm.  Where Iraq may have got it's WMD is totally irrelevant to 
>>the issue of it's required disarmament.

>>Carter

> All the rethoric, and discussion here doesn't matter one bit and we all
> know the US is probably going to do what the US want's to without input
> from allies or the UN, let's hope they let cooler heads proceed.
> This will then set a dangerous precedent, what if China doesn't like
> what North Korea is doing concerning their nuclear strategies, will they
> intervene and just do what they want and to hell with the rest of the
> world....where does it stop?

It should stop with the UN but because it is a paper tiger and 
completely stymied by it's own bureaucracy it is powerless to do 
anything useful.  Can you imagine what would happen in our Cabinet 
(government) if one or more members had a veto on the passage of 
legislation?  IMO that veto power in the UN Security Council is driving 
wedges between countries that in any other circumstances would find 
common ground and develop solutions.

You are probably right, the US will do what it has to do regardless of 
the useless UN.  I don't think however that it will do it without input 
from it's allies.  It is not collectively dumb enough to create an 
isolationist state.  In fact I don't think the American people would 
allow that to happen.  Should George W. Bush try to ignore his allies it 
is quite possible that he could suffer the same fate as Richard Nixon. 
Unlike us, the US has the power to impeach.

Carter