[PEN-L:1474] Re: Re ;Pray for impeachment

[Ajit Sinha <ecas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:14 10/12/98 -0500, you wrote:
>   	With the US led inspection team's surprise visit yesterday to Baath
>Party headquarters in downtown Baghdad to search for weapons of "mass
>destruction", it is clear that the US and Britain are seeking an pretext
>for unleashing the bombers.
>
>And once the bombers are unleashed, as Valis and Michael have pointed out,
>the hawkish congress will not impeach our morally  upright Commander in
>Chief struggling so heroically to defend the nation from enormously evil
>forces.
>
>
>  Following are some rather startling numbers taken from CIA World Fact
>Book of 1997, and the Statistical Abstract of the United States 1997
>
>US GDP    (1996)    $7,576.1 billion
>US Defense Spending  (1996)   $267.0 billion
>
>US Consumer spending on Alcoholic Beverages   (1994)  $85.5 Billion
>
>US Consumer spending on Tobacco Products (1994)        $47.7 billion
>
>
>***********IRAQ GDP (1996)     $42 billion.***************
>
>
>The Philadelphia Inquirer of Nov 18, 1998 reported that the Gulf War cost
>$61 billion and "?by private budget analysts' estimates, roughly $50
>billion of the annual $270 billion in U.S. military spending goes toward
>maintaining the Persian Gulf deployment and keeping the Iraqi president in
>line."
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But don't you think that Sadam has remained in power because of the US
policy. When in history a dictator or even a "leader" has lost a war in
such a complete fashion and has remained in power? I think Sadam has
remained in power because the sanctions for the Iraqi means that the war is
not over. Sadam is still fighting a war, and that's why he will not be
removed by either the people or the elites. Remove the sanction, and i tell
you Sadam will fall soon. People will say, now we have to build our
country, we need new politics, new leadership. Cheers, ajit sinha