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Silver Cheetah · 11-27-2001, 05:02 PM

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Originally posted by Ronn_Bman:
There has been much more diplomacy than action in the past three years. If we really wanted to get our inspector in, we could do it. The bombing really hasn't been done with "regularity". Regularity would be the bombing in Afghanistan. Also another miss perception is that it's just the US, but there are also British planes involved in policing Iraqi airspace. This is being done completely within UN decisions.

Taking out AA sites, and other UN ruled illegal military fixtures in Iraq has been done time and time again, because these sites are against the UN declaration and against the terms of the Iraq surrender in the Gulf War. Just another way Iraq thumbs it's nose at the UN. Knowing 99% of the time nothing will be done. Time to change that ratio.

The sanctions against Iraq aren't against food or humanitarian aid, but instead military items and other things deemed illegal for them by the UN. The sanctions allow the UN to supervise Iraq funds from the sale of oil and to ensure they aren't being used for illegal items like biological weapons development. Of course, they've figured out how to work around this. Did you see the story about the delapidated tanker overloaded with illegal Iraqi oil that sank. They send these ships to sea where they transfer their illegal cargo to a ship with a legal cargo. This mixes makes the oil untraceable. They sell oil illegally because the UN can't track the money, and they can spend it on what they want. My guess is they don't spend it on food. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Saddam does need to be removed, and he should have been removed 10 years ago, but no one had the teeth or stomach for it.

I obviously am misinformed on sanctions! I'll do some research. Out of interest, why was he not removed?

11-27-2001, 05:02 PM	#7
Silver Cheetah Fzoul Chembryl Join Date: July 26, 2001 Location: Brighton, East Sussex, UK Posts: 1,781	quote: Originally posted by Ronn_Bman: There has been much more diplomacy than action in the past three years. If we really wanted to get our inspector in, we could do it. The bombing really hasn't been done with "regularity". Regularity would be the bombing in Afghanistan. Also another miss perception is that it's just the US, but there are also British planes involved in policing Iraqi airspace. This is being done completely within UN decisions. Taking out AA sites, and other UN ruled illegal military fixtures in Iraq has been done time and time again, because these sites are against the UN declaration and against the terms of the Iraq surrender in the Gulf War. Just another way Iraq thumbs it's nose at the UN. Knowing 99% of the time nothing will be done. Time to change that ratio. The sanctions against Iraq aren't against food or humanitarian aid, but instead military items and other things deemed illegal for them by the UN. The sanctions allow the UN to supervise Iraq funds from the sale of oil and to ensure they aren't being used for illegal items like biological weapons development. Of course, they've figured out how to work around this. Did you see the story about the delapidated tanker overloaded with illegal Iraqi oil that sank. They send these ships to sea where they transfer their illegal cargo to a ship with a legal cargo. This mixes makes the oil untraceable. They sell oil illegally because the UN can't track the money, and they can spend it on what they want. My guess is they don't spend it on food. [img]smile.gif[/img] Saddam does need to be removed, and he should have been removed 10 years ago, but no one had the teeth or stomach for it. I obviously am misinformed on sanctions! I'll do some research. Out of interest, why was he not removed? __________________