U.S. and Iraq
Finally truth has peeked out on the front page of The Times! I refer to “Iraq Releases Briton Held in Bribe Case” (by Nick B. Williams Jr., Nov. 24). He writes that the Western and Middle East powers that drove the Iraqi army out of Kuwait are “pursuing a difficult strategy designed to ease Hussein out of power without disintegrating the Iraqi state.
“Key to the policy is denying the Iraqi leader unrestricted access to revenues raised by the potential sale of oil. The problem is that without money, Hussein’s regime is unable to feed the 17 million Iraqis. . . .”
Heaven forbid that our policy of bombing and starving these people should lead to the disintegration of their state!
Where is the U.N. resolution mandating the removal of Hussein? What possible threat to the United States is Iraq? How many more innocent babies must die? And where are the reporters good enough to ask these questions and demand answers?
JOHN C. LaMONTE, Los Angeles
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