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President Bush & Tony Blair

Contributor: fatmomma

Date: 2003-03-04 23:02:08

Iraq is surrounded and being bombed by the USA,every day in the so called "no fly zone area" . This has been happening with no defensive reaction from Iraq. Iraq was more than invaded by the US during the Gulf war; it was a full scale massacre. It was not only military targets hit but thousands of innocent civillians too. The USA's heavy backing of Israel puts it on a different playing field and less ready to make any concessions. They mock the USA stand making very similar statements to justify their actions and do not believe they need to heed any other authority than the USA.

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President Bush & Tony Blair

Contributor: codc01

Date: 2003-03-06 07:24:08

What no fly zone are you talking about?

The north of Iraq or the south of Iraq? One was voted by the security council (I think), the other one was created by the UK and the US... So one of them is illegal, and i think the Iraq army is right in defending itself in the southern no fly zone.

Yes, Israel should respect the UN Resolutions, and i think the US governement should put more pressure on Israel. But I also think that Saddam should be disarmed, as i said earlier,

I agree that force may be necessary, but only as a last resort. Canada's position is the right one (a deadline with an objective based disarmement plan)... As i said, the US is going into Iraq for the wrong reasons entirely.

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