Please don't bomb Iraq

[cathy Livingstone]

At 05:37 PM 12/16/98 -0800, you wrote:
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>Is there any way in which Saddam Hussein would be benefitted by having
>Clinton in power? He had to know how convenient this would be for Clinton,
>and he did in fact choose to mess with the inspectors precisely 1-2 days
>before the impeachment hearings, and these republican senators are on the
>television saying the phrase 'support our troops' about 4 times per thirty
>seconds, and clearly couldn't dare mess with Clinton right now. It gives
>the moderate republicans a big out. 
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>I caught Peter Jennings on ABC News during the bombing and he wimpishly
asked the reporter in the field why the U.S. government did not attempt to
encourage the growth of a democratic opposition movement (READ: why wasn't
the CIA doing their thang) since Desert Storm? The reporter didn't answer
but moved onto talking about the exciting light show. In my household
there's a consensus that Hussein and Clinton have some kind of special
relationship otherwise Hussein would have been dead long ago and Clinton
would have been out of the White House. Instead thousands and thousands of
Iraqis pay with their lives. Do you think the Palestinian government could
arrest Clinton (and all the past presidents, politicians, etc.) for his
crimes against humanity? Just wishful thinking. 

Also, since I'm in the conspiratorial mood, why, after Desert Storm and
it's  successful bamboozlement of the American public with its high tech
machinery, are American reporters and camerapeople still allowed to stay in
Iraq? Whose interest is this serving? I can't see what Hussein would get
out of this, unless he was in cohoots with Clinton. 
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