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Hello people. I was talking to a friend about CASI, who despite being a well-known conspiracy theorist came up with a quite plausible, but very disturbing suggestion; The restriction of trade with Iraq is obviously in the interests of other oil-producing nations - particularily in the Middle East. The only nations who officially support the sanctions are the UK and the US. Middle Eastern nations also tend to buy large quantities of arms from, erm, the UK and the US. A link, perhaps? Surely not. Of course, it is completely unheard of for oil cartels and arms manufacturers to influence government policy.... What do you think? Is it possible that millions of civilians will die in order to balance the USA's trade balance? We can be in little doubt that the planned strike against Iraq is purely an act for domestic politics (plenty of discussion of this on this list already), so anything is possible.... ------------------------ Andrew M, Sidney Sussex -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a discussion list run by Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To be removed/added, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk, NOT the whole list. Do not respond to emails erroneously sent to the whole list.