<HTML> From: mike larkin --- Doug Henwood <dhenwood@panix.com> wrote: > Charles Brown wrote: > > >This seems to support the position of those of us > who say it is the > >U.S.'s presence , not its absence or departure, > that makes "chaos" ( uh oh, > >better call James Bond ) in Iraq. > > The U.S. destroyed a state that permeated every > aspect of Iraqi life. > It was hard for institutions to exist outside the > Ba'athist > structure. As Boris Kagarlitsky once said of the > USSR, people related > politically to the state and not to each other. > Having destroyed that > - what's left? Christian said that one of the few > seriously left > secular parties wants the US out, but the UN in. Why > isn't that good > enough for you? You know better? > > Doug "U.S. Out, U.N. In."  Nice bumper sticker __________________________________ CB: Hey, good idea. Then the UN could inspect for WMD's , because WMD's could really cause chaos. Why didn't I think of that ? Somebody call Bush. Oh , you say Bush is in on  this chaos creating thing. How about Blair ? Is he in on creating chaos,  too ? Call James Bond and license him to kill 35 more/ day. </HTML>