Dove feathers in the President's mouth etc

[barbara100 at jps.net]

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From: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 2:50 PM
Subject: Re: Dove feathers in the President's mouth etc


> You keep saying "back then when Saddam did it". It's not an isolated
> aberration. Don't forget that Clinton & co sent bombers in when Saddam
> defied the exclusion zone to attack Shia communities in southern Iraq in
> 1993, and again in 1996, when he attacked Kurdish towns in the north, and
> that there was almost a war when the UN weapons inspectors were obstructed
> and forced to leave in 1998.
>

I think it's worth noting the inspectors weren't forced to leave in 1998 by
Saddam, but ordered to do so by the UN.

http://www.fair.org/extra/0210/inspectors.html