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I'm confidernt that the remarkable article by Mueller & Mueller will be extremely useful. I was astonished that one author teaches at Air War College at Maxwell Air Force Base. (But then the same shop published a remarkably candid article about "Nuclear Winter" about a decade ago.) For me the most compelling points that M & M make are * more Iraqis have been killed by sanctions than by all victims of WMDs * the danger of WMDs are grossly exagerated. Tom http://iraqwar.org/mass_destruction.htm Ahmed Al-Ani on CASI list wrote: > Dear Friends > > Following BASI's recent success: http://www.basinet.org > I have been given the task of writing an article for the Leeds Student Paper > wich has a circulation of over 50,000 and reaches 34,000 students. Its going > to be a full page in the comments section. I have decided to entitle the > article 'Sanctions of Mass Destruction'. I will argue that the sanctions on > Iraq themselves are the worst type of weopon of mass destruction as they are > indiscrimate and hurt the weakest and most vulnerable that they fall on. > > I want to attempt to expose the myth that Iraq is a viable threat to the > world and rebute the foreign office statement that: > 'economic' sanctions have played a vital role in preventing Sadam Hussein > from rebuilding his arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. > > I need some help with this my deadline is tomorrow!!! (wed) afternoon 5pm. I > need the following: > 1. A Defination for Weapon of Mass Destruction > 2. Documents of figures that the west (US and UK) have these weopons, e.g. > how many nuclear war heads etc. > 3. Documents of History that the west has used these...e.g. hiroshima > 4. Also when was it that BRITAIN gassed the Kurds and what happended, > fatalities, media reaction. > 5. Also what happened when IRAQ gassed the Kurds, fatalities, media reaction > and most importantly did they continue to sell arms to Sadam? > 5. Quotes from senior UN Inspectors like Richard Butler and Scott Ritter > saying that Iraq is no longer a threat and that the sanctions as currently > applied to Iraq are counterproductive. > 6. No Fly zones - how they are not really there to protect the Iraqis of the > South and North...as was touched upon in th Pilger's Documentary especially > by Felicity Arbuthnot. > > I wish to also expose the double standard that the west has when it comes to > dealing with Iraq...so if you have anything for this section please include > it. > > I am not sure if this is correct but it has been mentioned to me that there > was an article/report entitled 'Sanctions of Mass Destruction' produced > already...I would love to get my hands on it. > > MANY THANKS > > Ahmed Al-Ani > Britain Against Sanctions on Iraq > > ================================================ > Tel: 0113 2824810 Mob: 07713 742021 > E-mail: info@basinet.org Web page: www.basinet.org > Address: 6 Main Street, Carlton, Wakefield, WF3 3RW, UK > ================================================ > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > This is a discussion list run by the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq > For removal from list, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk > Full details of CASI's various lists can be found on the CASI website: > http://www.casi.org.uk -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a discussion list run by the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq For removal from list, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk Full details of CASI's various lists can be found on the CASI website: http://www.casi.org.uk