Iran's nuclear program

On 11 Aug 2004 20:47:10 -0700, (Thelasian) wrote:

Peter Kemp wrote in message . ..
On 10 Aug 2004 09:22:47 -0700, (Thelasian) wrote:

Don't forget the rest of the Security Council who voted fo rthe
sanctions regime.

Not quite. The "no fly zones" for example were never approved by the
UNSC, and were only enforced by the UK and US. The rest of the UNSC
didn't say or do anything about it though.

Err, the No Fly Zones had bugger all to do with the sanctions, which
*were* approved by the UNSC.

The NFZs were to prevent (or at least hinder) Saddam massacring the
Kurds and Shiites, unfortunately with little success.

Just about all teh major Western Powers - US political support,
Russian and French weapons, no doubt us Evil Brits (tm) had some hand
in it as well.


Oh they most certainly did - check out the Scott Inquiry.

Good point, I'd forgotten about "Supergun"

Peter Kemp

Peter Kemp wrote in message . ..
On 11 Aug 2004 20:47:10 -0700, (Thelasian) wrote:

Peter Kemp wrote in message . ..
On 10 Aug 2004 09:22:47 -0700, (Thelasian) wrote:

Don't forget the rest of the Security Council who voted fo rthe
sanctions regime.

Not quite. The "no fly zones" for example were never approved by the
UNSC, and were only enforced by the UK and US. The rest of the UNSC
didn't say or do anything about it though.

Err, the No Fly Zones had bugger all to do with the sanctions, which
*were* approved by the UNSC.



Err, no they were not. The no-fly zones were not approved by the UNSC.
And whatever the UNSC may or may not have done is no excuse for the
fact that the US quite intentionally armed Saddam and helped him
masscre people, then engaged in the policy of sanctions which resulted
in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children according to
UNICEF, and Madame Albright said it was all worth it.





The NFZs were to prevent (or at least hinder) Saddam massacring the
Kurds and Shiites, unfortunately with little success.

Just about all teh major Western Powers - US political support,
Russian and French weapons, no doubt us Evil Brits (tm) had some hand
in it as well.


Oh they most certainly did - check out the Scott Inquiry.

Good point, I'd forgotten about "Supergun"

Peter Kemp

On 12 Aug 2004 21:55:25 -0700, (Thelasian) wrote:

Peter Kemp wrote in message . ..
On 11 Aug 2004 20:47:10 -0700, (Thelasian) wrote:

Peter Kemp wrote in message . ..
On 10 Aug 2004 09:22:47 -0700, (Thelasian) wrote:

Don't forget the rest of the Security Council who voted fo rthe
sanctions regime.

Not quite. The "no fly zones" for example were never approved by the
UNSC, and were only enforced by the UK and US. The rest of the UNSC
didn't say or do anything about it though.

Err, the No Fly Zones had bugger all to do with the sanctions, which
*were* approved by the UNSC.



Err, no they were not. The no-fly zones were not approved by the UNSC.

And? I never claimed they were. If you read what I wrote, I said that
the *sanctions* were approved by the UNSC, not unilaterally imposed by
the US as you state.

And whatever the UNSC may or may not have done is no excuse for the
fact that the US quite intentionally armed Saddam and helped him
masscre people, then engaged in the policy of sanctions which resulted
in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children according to
UNICEF, and Madame Albright said it was all worth it.

Peter Kemp