Election Crisis and Electoral Reform

[Brad DeLong]

>At 03:49 PM 11/19/00 -0500, you wrote:
>>Here's my proposal. The Greens will bury the hatchet after the Dems
>>apologize for the thousands of Iraqi children that their leaders have
>>killed in the past 8 years.
>>
>>
>
>Please stop this nonsense: these children are dying because Hussein won't
>import the medicines they need. He can sell as much oil as he likes to
>import medicine and food--he simply refuses to do so, in great part so that
>he can call the US child murderers and be believed by people who aren't
>paying attention. There are lots of things to blame Clinton-Gore for; this
>isn't one of them.

A little overstated. But it does seem that calls for an immediate end 
to the Iraqi sanctions regime are in substance calls for the 
replacement of the current oil-for-food program with an 
oil-for-weapons program...

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