Bush lifts sanctions against Iraq

[seafan]

From the Sydney Morning Herald:


US President George W Bush lifted sanctions placed on Iraq in 1990, when Iraq was run by Saddam Hussein, who was toppled last year by US-led troops.

"I have determined that the situations that gave rise to these national emergencies have been significantly altered by the removal of the regime of Saddam Hussein and other developments," Bush said in a statement.

US-led forces toppled Saddam and occupied Iraq.

US and UN sanctions were put into place after Saddam's army invaded neighbouring Kuwait in 1990.

(more at link)


http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/30/1091080411545.html?oneclick=true


Very good news for the Iraqi people.

[TahitiNut]

1. I hope he bent his knees.

Wouldn't want him to get a hernia. Much.

[seafan]

2. Dubya sees his political future going up in flames.

He is such a disgrace to our nation.


Our hearts truly go out to the Iraqi people!

[havocmom]

3. Help me out here, does that mean Cheney's pals can now do business

legally with Iraq? Like, hmmm, I dunno, oil? Good news for te Iraqi people, maybe. Bet it is a sure thing good news for some pals of Chicken Hawk Dick.

[MichiganVote]

5. It enables all the foreign gov't to engage in trade

Somenthing that prior to 9/11 and Bush's raid on Iraq, the Europeans and other wanted. Limited reversal of the sanctions was rejected by the Bush/US

[havocmom]

6. But, how much 'influence' will the US exert in trade matters?

I mean, dimson's uncle got a big cut of the $$ for all trade with China, didn't he? So, is there some sort of arrangement where someone in the BFEE gets a piece of all the action? That is my concern. Anything they touch, they take a cut of and I just don't think the Iraqi people should give any percentage up to the criminals as some sort of legalized tribute. It worries me. They do nothing unless there is profit for them.

[MichiganVote]

8. They will take whatever they can get however they can get it

[Robb]

9. The question, I guess, is what

...is * getting from the EU and Japan in return? :shrug:

[MichiganVote]

10. Well... I think he'd like a little cooperation from them

[drdtroit]

7. Yeah, I guess they've got all the oil rigs running now,

now the real raping begins!

[izzie]

4. Good move George. But do not let them send in any thing like---------

sex things with the drugs to hospitals. What will the people in Iraq want next? Lights in the hospitals.

[spooked]

11. Well, it's a little TOO LATE for the dead Iraqi Children!

"In July 1989 (before the sanctions), 387 children per month under the age of five died in Iraq.
In July 1998 (after the sanctions), 6,495 children per month under the age of five died, a 16-fold increase from before the sanctions."

Conservative estimate...over half a million Iraqi children died.

http://www.geocities.com/iraqinfo/index.html?page=/iraqinfo/sanctions/sanctions.html

[cthrumatrix]

12. just plain criminal

[daleo]

13. It probably just gives a legal figleaf to a fire sale of Iraq's assets

Corporations can now buy up the occupied country for a song, which was a major reason for the invasion in the first place.