Election Crisis and Electoral Reform

[Seth Ackerman]

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> From: 	Brad DeLong[SMTP:delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU]
> Reply To: 	lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Sent: 	Wednesday, November 29, 2000 12:07 AM
> To: 	lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: 	Re: Election Crisis and Electoral Reform
> 
> >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...
> 
> 
> Brad DeLong
> 
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It's more than a little overstated. It's just wrong. Viz:

http://www.fair.org/extra/0003/crossette-iraq.html

Extra!
March/April 2000

New York Times on Iraq Sanctions:
A case of journalistic malpractice

By Seth Ackerman 

Seth