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American, can you actually read what I wrote, and then comment......you know think about it.
Glad the US were persuaded to back down on Iraq, never mind I'm sure they have other plans for Mr. Hussein.

Now here's a question for you, you redneck-wannabe, how can you support the Palestinians and oppose the lifting of sanctions against the Iraqi people? You support the Palestinians, but not their bed-fellows?

By the way, do you have children? You might understand the idea of solving the problem without taking sides a little better if you did.]]> Second Chechen War kimarx https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/archive-through-february-2-2001/paged/20/#post-30843 https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/archive-through-february-2-2001/paged/20/#post-30842 Tue, 27 Feb 2001 14:01:00 +0000
There are 2 1/2 females that keep this board open. May I suggest you direct that question to the 1/2 who's the "Spokesman in Charge" around here.]]> Second Chechen War informer https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/archive-through-february-2-2001/paged/20/#post-30842 https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/archive-through-february-2-2001/paged/20/#post-30841 Tue, 27 Feb 2001 14:01:00 +0000 Second Chechen War rookie https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/archive-through-february-2-2001/paged/20/#post-30841 https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/archive-through-february-2-2001/paged/20/#post-30840 Tue, 27 Feb 2001 13:53:00 +0000
U are willing to speak out against the human right's violations in Chechnya but not against those taking place by the jew in Palestine...

Why is that kim?]]> Second Chechen War rookie https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/archive-through-february-2-2001/paged/20/#post-30840 https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/archive-through-february-2-2001/paged/20/#post-30839 Tue, 27 Feb 2001 11:46:00 +0000

U.S. considers lifting non-military
Iraq sanctions

-- From Andrea Koppel, CNN State
Department Correspondent

BRUSSELS, Belgium (CNN) -- In what
would be a major policy change, U.S.
Secretary of State Colin Powell said
Monday that the United States was seriously
considering supporting the lifting of all
non-military U.N. sanctions against Iraq.

The U.N. sanctions program was designed
to force Iraq to destroy its ability to develop
and produce weapons of mass destruction.

Critics say the sanctions failed in their goal but caused the Iraqi people to suffer.

"I have every reason to believe we are able to keep the box as tightly closed as we have
the last 10 years, without receiving the baggage that goes with it," Powell said.

Following three days of talks with leaders in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria, Powell said the
United States was in the process of shaping new sanctions, which would target Iraq's military
exclusively and not the Iraqi people.

Powell said these ideas resonated throughout the region, where support for sanctions had
greatly diminished.

The Bush administration has as much as acknowledged that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
has won the propaganda war and succeeded in convincing the Arab world that the sanctions
had caused the Iraqi people to suffer.

Although Powell has attempted to convince people otherwise, he has also shown a
willingness to lift some of the non-military sanctions.

Powell said a lot of the details still need to be worked out and ultimately it would be up to the
United Nations sanction committee to decide what might be exported to Iraq.

Powell said the Bush administration hopes to have its new policy on Iraq ready to roll out
before the Arab League Summit in Amman, Jordan, at the end of March.

Core plank of Bush agenda

The Bush administration has made the tightening of sanctions on Iraq a core plank of its
foreign relations agenda.

But declining support in the Arab world and international opposition has led to a system which
U.S. President George W. Bush compared to Swiss cheese in its effectiveness.

The United States and Great Britain, permanent U.N. Security Council members, strongly
support the economic sanctions imposed after Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait.

Sanctions against Iraq are supposed to remain in place until Baghdad complies with demands
to dismantle its ability to produce weapons of mass destruction to the satisfaction of U.N.
inspectors.

But Russia, China and France, also permanent members of the Security Council, favor an
easing or an abolition of sanctions.

Several "humanitarian flights" originating from France, Russia and various Arab nations have
landed in Baghdad during the past year, in breach of the sanctions.

Russia wants the sanctions lifted so it can resume lucrative oil contracts with Baghdad and
have Iraq repay $8 billion it owes Moscow in Soviet-era debt.

Under the 1996 oil-for-food program, all revenue from sales of Iraqi oil is put into an escrow
fund, which is then used to buy humanitarian aid and food for the Iraqi people.

Final decisions on what should be prohibited items for export to Iraq, Powell explained, will
have to be made by the U.N. sanctions committee.

Eggs are currently on the list of banned items because the Iraqis might "do things" with
biological weapons, said Powell.

Currently there are some 1,600 contracts being held up by the United States.

Sanction heavily criticized

The sanction program has been heavily criticized for it humanitarian impact. Irishman Denis
Halliday, the coordinator of the U.N.'s oil-for-food program in Iraq, resigned in protest against
them in 1998.

"We are in the process of destroying an entire society," warned Halliday. "It's as simple and
terrifying as that. Five thousand children are dying every month."

Others have criticized the current sanctions for failing in their declared goal.

In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee last September, former U.N.
weapons inspector Richard Butler said, "given the last 22 months, given today's
circumstances of crumbling sanctions, given the fact that he is back in the arms business, it
follows as the night follows the day for me to say what I am saying: These sanctions are not
working."

Powell has described rebuilding sanctions against Iraq in a "more sensible way," as the chief
reason for his Middle East-Persian Gulf trip.

The essence of the so-called smarter sanctions, explained Powell, is to target Iraq's weapons
of mass destruction, not the Iraqi people. That message "resonated" within the region,
according to Powell.

Tightening of questionable exports

He also stressed that modifications in the sanctions must involve tightening of questionable
exports to Iraq from front-line states, neighbors like Jordan and Syria.

"If you go forward, you really have to do something about the front-line states to stop things
that might not be under U.N. controls," he said.

Powell said tight controls on weapons shipments to Iraq will remain in place even as the
burden of economic sanctions on the Iraqi people is eased.

The Bush administration intends to consult with Russia, China, Britain, France and again with
Arab governments, said a senior Bush administration official speaking on condition of
anonymity.


For more stories from CNN.com, click here.]]> Second Chechen War kimarx https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/archive-through-february-2-2001/paged/20/#post-30839 https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/archive-through-february-2-2001/paged/20/#post-30838 Tue, 27 Feb 2001 09:21:00 +0000 I still think it isn't that important to portray one side or the other as the hero or the bully, the more important issue is whether to become involved and force both parties into a compromise, or to sit back and let them fight it out for themselves.
Either way, what's the point of investing too much emotion in either side?
I feel for the individuals caught up in these crisis, not the political monsters that put them there.
In the end the outcome will depend on who is more important in the overall political picture.(I see Nato are starting to wash their hands of the Albanians. "EU threatens to block aid to Kosovo if Albanian violence continues")]]> Second Chechen War kimarx https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/archive-through-february-2-2001/paged/20/#post-30838 https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/archive-through-february-2-2001/paged/20/#post-30837 Mon, 26 Feb 2001 20:25:00 +0000 Second Chechen War alexandernevsky https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/archive-through-february-2-2001/paged/20/#post-30837 https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/archive-through-february-2-2001/paged/20/#post-30836 Mon, 26 Feb 2001 16:05:00 +0000 Love URN's new USC! Shame though....

Where's Delenne?]]> Second Chechen War kimarx https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/archive-through-february-2-2001/paged/20/#post-30836 https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/archive-through-february-2-2001/paged/20/#post-30835 Mon, 26 Feb 2001 13:52:00 +0000 mornin', mum!

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it's like we never left....heh

until when next we leave...]]> Second Chechen War treslavance https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/archive-through-february-2-2001/paged/20/#post-30835 https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/archive-through-february-2-2001/paged/20/#post-30834 Mon, 26 Feb 2001 12:09:00 +0000 Second Chechen War kimarx https://www.viexpo.com/second-chechen-war/archive-through-february-2-2001/paged/20/#post-30834