Subject: Re: [LPNY DISCUSS] Initiation of Democracy Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 11:33:08 -0500 To: From: Bob Armstrong On Sun, 9 Mar 2003 21:38:23 -0500, Nicolas Leobold wrote: >=A0Initiation of Democracy > >=A0I was aware that we wanted to encourage democracy in the Arab= world, > and stem the tide of fundamentalist Islam. If the purpose were to encourage democracy in Iraq , why do we= not here an ultimatum for Hussein to hold UN monitored elections ? I just heard Jack Straw refer to that not being a cause of= action under international law , but what can that mean when you distain the= global structure completely anyway ? If that's what Bush really wants , instead of Hussein's head ,= I'm sure he could get wide spread support for it . I ask , What are the criteria for "compliance" ? Can Iraq meet= them if in fact it has no weapons ? -- By the way , what ever happened to Mohamar Kadafi ? -- =A0Bob Armstrong -- http://CoSy.com -- 212-285-1864 Ultimate Computing Environment : =A0http://cosy.com/K/CoSy.htm A WTC vision : http://cosy.com/CoSy/ConicAllConnect/ =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A02003/03/10 11:20:32 AM