Conference on Racism: Jewish Caucus Statement

Brad DeLong jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu
Fri Sep 7 18:20:20 PDT 2001



>We built a fairly strong anti-Gulf War movement here in
>Bloomington-Normal, and at most of our rallies and forums the prevailing
>position of the speakers was that Kuwait was an artificial construct
>with no right to exist as a state. I would still argue that. Its only
>reason for existing is to deny Iraq access to the sea.

But Basra is a seaport. And as far as I know, the only people who have ever tried to deny Iraqi ships access to the Persian Gulf are the Iranians...

Am I completely confused, or what?

Brad DeLong



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