Re: Bush Goin' Down In Flames Re: ...

mmeron_at_cars3.uchicago.edu
Date: 07/04/04 

Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 09:55:56 GMT

In article <r-0407040230500001@192.168.1.100>, r@somis.org (• R.L.Measures) writes:
>In article <ssOFc.48$45.16143@news.uchicago.edu>,
>mmeron@cars3.uchicago.edu wrote:
>
>> In article <r-0307040833230001@192.168.1.100>, r@somis.org (•
>R.L.Measures) writes:
>> >In article <40e6976a$0$23317$61fed72c@news.rcn.com>, jmfbahciv@aol.com wrote:
>> >
>> >> In article <sUqFc.41$45.12976@news.uchicago.edu>,
>> >> mmeron@cars3.uchicago.edu wrote:
>> >> >In article <40e5f7d4$0$23335$61fed72c@news.rcn.com>, "Watson & Parisi"
>> >> <niche@rcn.com> writes:
>> >> >><mmeron@cars3.uchicago.edu> wrote in message
>> >> >>news:1MFEc.8$45.2301@news.uchicago.edu...
>> >> >>> In article <4d06b9d7.0406300942.26528e4b@posting.google.com>,
>> >> >>rwmw@telus.net (Rob Woodside) writes:
>> >> >>[...]
>> >> >>> >I think the UN is trying to restrict the market for dual use
>> >> >>> >chemicals. America is currently expending a lot of blood and treasure
>> >> >>> >in Iraq over WMD (if you believe Bush). If I was an American I'd be
>> >> >>> >mad as hell. I would want to find out how those weapons got there in
>> >> >>> >the first place and I would want laws that would prevent this sort of
>> >> >>> >thing from ever happening again. Who could imagine nearly a thousand
>> >> >>> >American dead to get rid of long gone WMD that America probably put
>> >> >>> >there in the first place!!!
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> And, why do you assume that the US put them there?
>> >> >>
>> >> >>The fact that at one time the US armed Iraq is not assumption, but known
>> >> >>historic fact.
>> >> >
>> >> >I recall we had this exchange already, some months ago, and I
>> >> >mentioned to you the list of arms supplies to Iraq, compiled by the
>> >> >nice folks in Stockholm. You may find all the details at
>> >> >
>> >> >http://projects.sipri.se/armstrade/Trnd_Ind_IRQ_Imps_73-02.pdf
>> >> >
>> >> >You'll find there that the bulk of the Iraqi arms supplies came from 3
>> >> >sources, the USSR, France and China. These 3 account for more than
>> >> >80% of the total. The US share was circa 1%, behind such world powers
>> >> >like Romania and Denmark. So, why won't you ask whether it was
>> >> >Denmark that put the WMDs there?:-)
>> >>
>> >> And now this fiction has made it into the movies, along with other
>> >> myths of self-destruction.
>> >>
>> >• The laugher is that Iraq stills owes the Russky's $12-billion for arms
>> >shipments.
>> >
>> Well, yes. Extending credit in rough neighborhoods is a risky
>> business.
>>
>• Maybe the Russky's should have used "Red Lining"?
>
Maybe:-) Well, as long as they were in the position to say "you pay
or we kneecap you" (which is what it takes to extend credit in rough
neighborhoods) they were fine. Later, of course, they weren't.

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