Election Crisis and Electoral Reform

Tom Waters tjwaters at earthlink.net
Tue Nov 21 15:57:44 PST 2000


Seth Ackerman <SAckerman at FAIR.org> wrote:


> That's exactly the point. The ANC supported the sanctions. Can you name
one
> Iraqi who supports the embargo? None of the Iraqi opposition groups in
exile
> support it.

One might also mention that the US ruling class supported South Africa's apartheid government. This meant that the sanctions, won by US allies of the ANC, interrupted support for apartheid from the world's most powerful country. I wonder what superpower is being stymied in its support for Saddam Hussein by the blocjade of Iraq?

Tom

Tom Waters Bronx, New York tjwaters at earthlink.net



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