Ok, Joe, I'll bite.
How many angels CAN dance on the head of a pin?
If the bombs started dropping on every country that defied or ignored U.N.
or other international resolutions and sanctions, we'd have nuclear winter.
Of course, some of the first bombs would have to be dropped on Washingon,
D.C., U.S.A.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe De Ville" <joe.deville AT encompass-it .D.OT com>
To: <profox@leafe.com>
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 7:32 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] : French Products and Companies to Boycott
> Ed,
>
> The proposed resolution was not "completely disarm by such-and-such a
date", but
> rather: completely comply with the 17 previous resolutions, which said,
in
> short: "prove that you have **disposed of** your weapons of mass
destruction
> and the means to create more such weapons". It is, by the way, not only
> possible, but easy to prove that you don't have some things: I don't have
a
> solar system in my house. Come on over, any time and check - I have
nothing to
> hide. I no longer have the 1989 Honda Civic I used to drive (ironically,
a
> "bomb"). I have the documents to prove that I sold it. Again, come on
over,
> any time, and check ("unfettered access"). Likewise, tons of munitions
can be
> proven to have been destroyed or otherwise dispatched. The UN inspectors
*were*
> being hindered from (executing) their tasks, although they were not being
> absolutely prevented (anymore -- Iraq "kicked them out" not so long ago,
though,
> and only "allowed" them back in (apparently) because of the threat of
military
> action from a world united against them). The US proposed no resolution
where
> war was an "automatic option" (whatever that is), but did finally get
around to
> proposing one which involved specific and terrible consequences for
failure to
> comply, instead of the mealy-mouthed, meaningless threats of those
previous
> "resolutions".
>
> Of course, I was not personally involved in any of these decisions, so I
base
> all of my opinions on what has been reported in the press.
>
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