Be realistic. Demand the impossible!
jks
--- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:
> At 9:19 AM -0700 7/22/03, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
> >We'd save the expense of occupation, byt we owe
> vast sums for reconstruction.
>
> Let's get back to the real world. Did the United
> States government
> pay Korea, Vietnam, Nicaragua, etc. "vast sums for
> reconstruction"?
>
> Iraqis will be lucky if the US
> anti-war/anti-occupation movement gets
> strong enough to prevent the USG from imposing
> economic sanctions on
> an independent Iraq that has kicked out foreign
> occupiers, i.e. to
> compel it simply "walk out," without keeping one big
> economic foot on
> Iraqi necks.
>
> At 9:35 AM -0400 7/22/03, Nathan Newman wrote:
> >Bring Them Home Now! Screw the Iraqis! Leave them
> to Starve!
> >Protect Our Boys!
> >
> >Why not, Demand UN administration! Democracy for
> Iraq!
>
> If masses of Iraqis demanded UN administration, you
> might support
> them. Otherwise, don't call for what they aren't
> calling for.
> --
> Yoshie
>
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