AMERIKA, nein, non, no, MCDONALDS Ja, oui, si
Jan 28th 2007 | 9:23 pm
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AMERIKA, nein, non, no, MCDONALDS Ja, oui, si
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/28/
AR2007012801048.html
Winning Hearts and Stomachs
Hostility to America, but Lines at McDonald's
By Sebastian Mallaby
Monday, January 29, 2007; Page A15
Last week brought fresh evidence of America's fallen standing in the
world: The BBC polled 26,000 people in 25 countries and found that
less than a third regard U.S. influence as positive. But one symbol of
America -- a more enduring one than President Bush, by far -- provided
some more cheerful news. McDonald's reported its strongest business
results in three decades, and brisk sales in supposedly anti-American
countries were a large part of the reason.....
As America's car culture spread abroad, the hamburger followed.
McDonald's has opened restaurants in 119 countries and serves 52
million people daily; its appeal is inextricably bound up with the
appeal of America...."
...If we eat hamburgers and potatoes for 1,000 years, we will become
taller, our skin will become whiter and our hair blonder," declared
the enthusiastic boss of McDonald's in Japan when the first Big Mac
was served there 36 years ago...
We are an icon of the United States," Denis Hennequin, the French
chief of McDonald's Europe, told the New York Times last spring. "When
you enter a McDonald's restaurant, you enter America."
...The appeal of the American way seems to transcend all boundaries.
When McDonald's opened its first restaurant in Kuwait in 1994, 15,000
customers formed a seven-mile line at the drive-through....
......China boasts 780 McDonald's restaurants; and this month, in a
Beijing suburb not far from the Ming tombs,...
For a while in China, McDonald's offered customers Asian-style wraps
and considered marketing a "rice burger." But now the company has
realized that the Chinese want hamburgers....
...McDonald's profit in France is second only to its profits in its
home territory....
After 44 consecutive months of sales growth, McDonald's serves 6
million more customers a day than it did four years ago.....
Having catered first to a nation on the move, McDonald's now caters to
frazzled workaholics worldwide......
American business succeeds in the world because it morphs, shape-
shifts, learns from its mistakes; it is too paranoid, too anxious to
please its customers, to stick with formulas that aren't working...."
LMAO!
AR2007012801048.html
Winning Hearts and Stomachs
Hostility to America, but Lines at McDonald's
By Sebastian Mallaby
Monday, January 29, 2007; Page A15
Last week brought fresh evidence of America's fallen standing in the
world: The BBC polled 26,000 people in 25 countries and found that
less than a third regard U.S. influence as positive. But one symbol of
America -- a more enduring one than President Bush, by far -- provided
some more cheerful news. McDonald's reported its strongest business
results in three decades, and brisk sales in supposedly anti-American
countries were a large part of the reason.....
As America's car culture spread abroad, the hamburger followed.
McDonald's has opened restaurants in 119 countries and serves 52
million people daily; its appeal is inextricably bound up with the
appeal of America...."
...If we eat hamburgers and potatoes for 1,000 years, we will become
taller, our skin will become whiter and our hair blonder," declared
the enthusiastic boss of McDonald's in Japan when the first Big Mac
was served there 36 years ago...
We are an icon of the United States," Denis Hennequin, the French
chief of McDonald's Europe, told the New York Times last spring. "When
you enter a McDonald's restaurant, you enter America."
...The appeal of the American way seems to transcend all boundaries.
When McDonald's opened its first restaurant in Kuwait in 1994, 15,000
customers formed a seven-mile line at the drive-through....
......China boasts 780 McDonald's restaurants; and this month, in a
Beijing suburb not far from the Ming tombs,...
For a while in China, McDonald's offered customers Asian-style wraps
and considered marketing a "rice burger." But now the company has
realized that the Chinese want hamburgers....
...McDonald's profit in France is second only to its profits in its
home territory....
After 44 consecutive months of sales growth, McDonald's serves 6
million more customers a day than it did four years ago.....
Having catered first to a nation on the move, McDonald's now caters to
frazzled workaholics worldwide......
American business succeeds in the world because it morphs, shape-
shifts, learns from its mistakes; it is too paranoid, too anxious to
please its customers, to stick with formulas that aren't working...."
LMAO!
Jan 29th 2007 | 12:52 am
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"PJ O'Donovan" <[email protected]> kirjoitti
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Jan 29th 2007 | 1:47 am
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Re: AMERIKA, nein, non, no, MCDONALDS Ja, oui, si
"Pajamas O'Donovan" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:
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>
<snip>
> LMAO!
>
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Jan 26, 6:50 AM ET
Reuters
Chinese police have arrested three men for killing two young women to
sell their corpses as "ghost brides" for dead single men, a Chinese
newspaper reported, warning the dark custom might have claimed many
other victims.
Yang Donghai, a 35-year-old farmer in western China's Shaanxi
province, confessed to killing a woman bought from a poor family for
12,000 yuan ($1,545) last year.
She thought she was being sold into an arranged marriage, but Yang
killed her in a gully and sold her corpse for 16,000 yuan, the Legal
Daily reported on Thursday. He and two accomplices then killed a
prostitute and sold her for 8,000 yuan before police caught them. ($1
US = 7.769 yuan)
"I did it for the money; it was a quick buck," Yang said, according to
the paper. "If I hadn't slipped up early, I planned to do a few more."
The women were victims of an old belief, still alive in the yellow-
earth highlands of western China, that young men who die unmarried
should go to their graves accompanied by deceased women who will be
their wives in the afterlife. Often these women die natural deaths.
Police in Yanan, the poor and dusty corner of Shaanxi where Chairman
Mao Zedong nurtured his Communist revolution, said the dark trade went
beyond these cases.
"The actual number is far from just these," the paper said.
Yang and two helpers sold the bodies to Li Longsheng, an undertaker
who police said specialized in buying and selling the dead women for
"ghost weddings." It was unclear what happened to Li.
[email protected]. com...
>
<snip>
> LMAO!
>
Back to Story - Help
Jan 26, 6:50 AM ET
Reuters
Chinese police have arrested three men for killing two young women to
sell their corpses as "ghost brides" for dead single men, a Chinese
newspaper reported, warning the dark custom might have claimed many
other victims.
Yang Donghai, a 35-year-old farmer in western China's Shaanxi
province, confessed to killing a woman bought from a poor family for
12,000 yuan ($1,545) last year.
She thought she was being sold into an arranged marriage, but Yang
killed her in a gully and sold her corpse for 16,000 yuan, the Legal
Daily reported on Thursday. He and two accomplices then killed a
prostitute and sold her for 8,000 yuan before police caught them. ($1
US = 7.769 yuan)
"I did it for the money; it was a quick buck," Yang said, according to
the paper. "If I hadn't slipped up early, I planned to do a few more."
The women were victims of an old belief, still alive in the yellow-
earth highlands of western China, that young men who die unmarried
should go to their graves accompanied by deceased women who will be
their wives in the afterlife. Often these women die natural deaths.
Police in Yanan, the poor and dusty corner of Shaanxi where Chairman
Mao Zedong nurtured his Communist revolution, said the dark trade went
beyond these cases.
"The actual number is far from just these," the paper said.
Yang and two helpers sold the bodies to Li Longsheng, an undertaker
who police said specialized in buying and selling the dead women for
"ghost weddings." It was unclear what happened to Li.
Jan 29th 2007 | 7:13 am
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Re: AMERIKA, nein, non, no, MCDONALDS Ja, oui, si
<American business succeeds in the world because it morphs, shape-
shifts, learns from its mistakes; it is too paranoid, too anxious to
please its customers, to stick with formulas that aren't working...."
PeeJay>>
<What does this paragraph mean, prithee? I don't think paranoia is an
awfully good thing, I don't think that sticking with formulas that
aren't
working is a good thing
Donna Evleth>
The paragraph is crystal clear and self explanatory. My dictionary
tells me paranoia can be a peception of creating potential hostility
in others. The last thing an entrepreneur would want to do is create
hostility in his customer base and reacts accordingly and quickly but
that sensitivity obviously is beyond the comprehension in the
mentality of the socialist like you where the quest for profit is
considered a form of obscenity.
<I don't think that sticking with formulas that aren't
working is a good thing (think of dear President Bush in Iraq).
Donna Evleth>
A classic non sequitur but no need to broadcast your ilk would have
pushed for immediate retreat and surrender after the 81000 US
casualties in a few weeks in Dec 44 and Jan 45 during the Battle of
the Bulge with the Germans. The American people were just made of
better stuff in those days, No need to broadcast you are and your
colleagues on the left are not made of that same stuff.
On Jan 29, 2:23 am, "PJ O'Donovan" <[email protected]> wrote:
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/28/
> AR2007012801048.html
>
> Winning Hearts and Stomachs
> Hostility to America, but Lines at McDonald's
>
> By Sebastian Mallaby
> Monday, January 29, 2007; Page A15
>
> Last week brought fresh evidence of America's fallen standing in the
> world: The BBC polled 26,000 people in 25 countries and found that
> less than a third regard U.S. influence as positive. But one symbol of
> America -- a more enduring one than President Bush, by far -- provided
> some more cheerful news. McDonald's reported its strongest business
> results in three decades, and brisk sales in supposedly anti-American
> countries were a large part of the reason.....
>
> As America's car culture spread abroad, the hamburger followed.
> McDonald's has opened restaurants in 119 countries and serves 52
> million people daily; its appeal is inextricably bound up with the
> appeal of America...."
>
> ...If we eat hamburgers and potatoes for 1,000 years, we will become
> taller, our skin will become whiter and our hair blonder," declared
> the enthusiastic boss of McDonald's in Japan when the first Big Mac
> was served there 36 years ago...
>
> We are an icon of the United States," Denis Hennequin, the French
> chief of McDonald's Europe, told the New York Times last spring. "When
> you enter a McDonald's restaurant, you enter America."
>
> ...The appeal of the American way seems to transcend all boundaries.
> When McDonald's opened its first restaurant in Kuwait in 1994, 15,000
> customers formed a seven-mile line at the drive-through....
>
> ......China boasts 780 McDonald's restaurants; and this month, in a
> Beijing suburb not far from the Ming tombs,...
>
> For a while in China, McDonald's offered customers Asian-style wraps
> and considered marketing a "rice burger." But now the company has
> realized that the Chinese want hamburgers....
>
> ...McDonald's profit in France is second only to its profits in its
> home territory....
>
> After 44 consecutive months of sales growth, McDonald's serves 6
> million more customers a day than it did four years ago.....
>
> Having catered first to a nation on the move, McDonald's now caters to
> frazzled workaholics worldwide......
>
> American business succeeds in the world because it morphs, shape-
> shifts, learns from its mistakes; it is too paranoid, too anxious to
> please its customers, to stick with formulas that aren't working...."
>
> LMAO!
shifts, learns from its mistakes; it is too paranoid, too anxious to
please its customers, to stick with formulas that aren't working...."
PeeJay>>
<What does this paragraph mean, prithee? I don't think paranoia is an
awfully good thing, I don't think that sticking with formulas that
aren't
working is a good thing
Donna Evleth>
The paragraph is crystal clear and self explanatory. My dictionary
tells me paranoia can be a peception of creating potential hostility
in others. The last thing an entrepreneur would want to do is create
hostility in his customer base and reacts accordingly and quickly but
that sensitivity obviously is beyond the comprehension in the
mentality of the socialist like you where the quest for profit is
considered a form of obscenity.
<I don't think that sticking with formulas that aren't
working is a good thing (think of dear President Bush in Iraq).
Donna Evleth>
A classic non sequitur but no need to broadcast your ilk would have
pushed for immediate retreat and surrender after the 81000 US
casualties in a few weeks in Dec 44 and Jan 45 during the Battle of
the Bulge with the Germans. The American people were just made of
better stuff in those days, No need to broadcast you are and your
colleagues on the left are not made of that same stuff.
On Jan 29, 2:23 am, "PJ O'Donovan" <[email protected]> wrote:
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/28/
> AR2007012801048.html
>
> Winning Hearts and Stomachs
> Hostility to America, but Lines at McDonald's
>
> By Sebastian Mallaby
> Monday, January 29, 2007; Page A15
>
> Last week brought fresh evidence of America's fallen standing in the
> world: The BBC polled 26,000 people in 25 countries and found that
> less than a third regard U.S. influence as positive. But one symbol of
> America -- a more enduring one than President Bush, by far -- provided
> some more cheerful news. McDonald's reported its strongest business
> results in three decades, and brisk sales in supposedly anti-American
> countries were a large part of the reason.....
>
> As America's car culture spread abroad, the hamburger followed.
> McDonald's has opened restaurants in 119 countries and serves 52
> million people daily; its appeal is inextricably bound up with the
> appeal of America...."
>
> ...If we eat hamburgers and potatoes for 1,000 years, we will become
> taller, our skin will become whiter and our hair blonder," declared
> the enthusiastic boss of McDonald's in Japan when the first Big Mac
> was served there 36 years ago...
>
> We are an icon of the United States," Denis Hennequin, the French
> chief of McDonald's Europe, told the New York Times last spring. "When
> you enter a McDonald's restaurant, you enter America."
>
> ...The appeal of the American way seems to transcend all boundaries.
> When McDonald's opened its first restaurant in Kuwait in 1994, 15,000
> customers formed a seven-mile line at the drive-through....
>
> ......China boasts 780 McDonald's restaurants; and this month, in a
> Beijing suburb not far from the Ming tombs,...
>
> For a while in China, McDonald's offered customers Asian-style wraps
> and considered marketing a "rice burger." But now the company has
> realized that the Chinese want hamburgers....
>
> ...McDonald's profit in France is second only to its profits in its
> home territory....
>
> After 44 consecutive months of sales growth, McDonald's serves 6
> million more customers a day than it did four years ago.....
>
> Having catered first to a nation on the move, McDonald's now caters to
> frazzled workaholics worldwide......
>
> American business succeeds in the world because it morphs, shape-
> shifts, learns from its mistakes; it is too paranoid, too anxious to
> please its customers, to stick with formulas that aren't working...."
>
> LMAO!
Jan 29th 2007 | 8:55 am
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Lol he's 70 ++ like evleth !!
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> "PJ O'Donovan" <[email protected]> kirjoitti
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>>
> Consult an able shrink. Try penis enlargement as well.
"Markku Grönroos" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de news:
[email protected].. .
>
> "PJ O'Donovan" <[email protected]> kirjoitti
> viestissÀ:1170066186.370080.106930@l53g2000cwa .googlegroups.com...
>>
> Consult an able shrink. Try penis enlargement as well.
Jan 30th 2007 | 10:17 am
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Re: AMERIKA, nein, non, no, MCDONALDS Ja, oui, si
",.no need to broadcast your ilk would have
pushed for immediate retreat and surrender after the 81000 US
casualties in a few weeks in Dec 44 and Jan 45 during the Battle of
the Bulge with the Germans.
PeeJay>
<My "ilk" understood that World War II was an absolute necessity
because .... Germany declared war
Donna Evleth>
By that convoluted logic your "ilk" then has to feel that it was an
"absolute necessity" for Germany to go to war and invade France and
bomb the UK since France and UK declared war on Germany. Nein?
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/ww2time.htm#1940
Sept 1, 1939 - Nazis invade Poland.
Sept 3, 1939 - Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war
on Germany.
June 23, 1940 - Hitler tours Paris.
Please explain.
pushed for immediate retreat and surrender after the 81000 US
casualties in a few weeks in Dec 44 and Jan 45 during the Battle of
the Bulge with the Germans.
PeeJay>
<My "ilk" understood that World War II was an absolute necessity
because .... Germany declared war
Donna Evleth>
By that convoluted logic your "ilk" then has to feel that it was an
"absolute necessity" for Germany to go to war and invade France and
bomb the UK since France and UK declared war on Germany. Nein?
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/ww2time.htm#1940
Sept 1, 1939 - Nazis invade Poland.
Sept 3, 1939 - Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war
on Germany.
June 23, 1940 - Hitler tours Paris.
Please explain.
Jan 31st 2007 | 12:08 am
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Re: AMERIKA, nein, non, no, MCDONALDS Ja, oui, si
<You still haven't answered my original question: when did Iraq
declare war
on the United States?
Donna Evleth>
When did I claim that Iraq had "declared war" on the US?
If you are concerned about that I would suggest you do "historical
research" and consult the Clinton's papers in the Clinton library and
check what Clinton had in mind in his HR 4655 calling for "regime
change " in Iraq in 1998 and why he and the Congress supported said
"regime change" and then followed by the Congressional resolution in
which the Congress granted Clinton's successor, George Bush, the
authority to use US armed forces to bring about this "regime change"
in Iraq
Perhaps your two left wing whacko California Senators could enlighten
you as to what they had in mind when they voted for this "regime
change" in
Iraq in 1998 even though Iraq had not "declared war" on the US and
what your Senator Diane Feinstein Dem CA had in mind when she
authorized President Bush to use force to bring about this "regime
change" in Iraq in Oct 2002 despite the fact that Iraq had not
declared war on the US.
Has HR 4655 which passed the Senate unanimously under President
Clinton
calling for said "regime change" in Iraq ever been canceled or has it
fact come to fruition despite the fact that Iraq never "declared war"
on the US?
H.R.4655
Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 (Enrolled Bill (Sent to President))
Bill Summary & Status for the 105th Congress
Oct 5, 98:
Called up by House under suspension of the rules.
Considered by House as unfinished business.
Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 360 - 38 (Roll No. 482).
October 31, 1998
Oct 7, 98:
Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
October 31, 1998
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
Today I am signing into law H.R. 4655, the "Iraq Liberation Act of
1998." This Act makes clear that it is the sense of the Congress that
the United States should support those elements of the Iraqi
opposition
that advocate a very different future for Iraq than the bitter reality
of internal repression and external aggression that the current regime
in Baghdad now offers.
Let me be clear on what the U.S. objectives are: The United States
wants Iraq to rejoin the family of nations as a freedom-loving and
law-abiding member. This is in our interest and that of our allies
within the region.
The United States favors an Iraq that offers its people freedom at
home. I categorically reject arguments that this is unattainable due
to
Iraq's history or its ethnic or sectarian make-up. Iraqis deserve and
desire freedom like everyone else. The United States looks forward to
a
democratically supported regime that would permit us to enter into a
dialogue leading to the reintegration of Iraq into normal
international
life.
My Administration has pursued, and will continue to pursue, these
objectives through active application of all relevant United Nations
Security Council resolutions. The evidence is overwhelming that such
changes will not happen under the current Iraq leadership.
In the meantime, while the United States continues to look to the
Security Council's efforts to keep the current regime's behavior in
check, we look forward to new leadership in Iraq that has the support
of the Iraqi people. The United States is providing support to
opposition groups from all sectors of the Iraqi community that could
lead to a popularly supported government.
On October 21, 1998, I signed into law the Omnibus Consolidated and
Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999, which made $8 million
available for assistance to the Iraqi democratic opposition. This
assistance is intended to help the democratic opposition unify, work
together more effectively, and articulate the aspirations of the Iraqi
people for a pluralistic, participa--tory political system that will
include all of Iraq's diverse ethnic and religious groups. As required
by the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for FY 1998 (Public
Law 105-174), the Department of State submitted a report to the
Congress on plans to establish a program to support the democratic
opposition. My Administration, as required by that statute, has also
begun to implement a program to compile information regarding
allegations of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes by
Iraq's current leaders as a step towards bringing to justice those
directly responsible for such acts.
The Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 provides additional, discretionary
authorities under which my Administration can act to further the
objectives I outlined above. There are, of course, other important
elements of U.S. policy. These include the maintenance of U.N.
Security
Council support efforts to eliminate Iraq's weapons and missile
programs and economic sanctions that continue to deny the regime the
means to reconstitute those threats to international peace and
security. United States support for the Iraqi opposition will be
carried out consistent with those policy objectives as well.
Similarly,
U.S. support must be attuned to what the opposition can effectively
make use of as it develops over time. With those observations, I sign
H.R. 4655 into law.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON
THE WHITE HOUSE,
October 31, 1998.
Middle East & Islamic Studies, URL:
http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast
Ali Houissa, The Middle East & Islamic Studies Bibliographer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq#Invasion_legitimacy
In October 2002, with the "Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of
United States Armed Forces Against Iraq" (Adopted 296-133 by the House
of Representatives and 77-23 by the Senate), the United States
Congress
granted President Bush the authority to wage war against Iraq.
declare war
on the United States?
Donna Evleth>
When did I claim that Iraq had "declared war" on the US?
If you are concerned about that I would suggest you do "historical
research" and consult the Clinton's papers in the Clinton library and
check what Clinton had in mind in his HR 4655 calling for "regime
change " in Iraq in 1998 and why he and the Congress supported said
"regime change" and then followed by the Congressional resolution in
which the Congress granted Clinton's successor, George Bush, the
authority to use US armed forces to bring about this "regime change"
in Iraq
Perhaps your two left wing whacko California Senators could enlighten
you as to what they had in mind when they voted for this "regime
change" in
Iraq in 1998 even though Iraq had not "declared war" on the US and
what your Senator Diane Feinstein Dem CA had in mind when she
authorized President Bush to use force to bring about this "regime
change" in Iraq in Oct 2002 despite the fact that Iraq had not
declared war on the US.
Has HR 4655 which passed the Senate unanimously under President
Clinton
calling for said "regime change" in Iraq ever been canceled or has it
fact come to fruition despite the fact that Iraq never "declared war"
on the US?
H.R.4655
Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 (Enrolled Bill (Sent to President))
Bill Summary & Status for the 105th Congress
Oct 5, 98:
Called up by House under suspension of the rules.
Considered by House as unfinished business.
Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 360 - 38 (Roll No. 482).
October 31, 1998
Oct 7, 98:
Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
October 31, 1998
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
Today I am signing into law H.R. 4655, the "Iraq Liberation Act of
1998." This Act makes clear that it is the sense of the Congress that
the United States should support those elements of the Iraqi
opposition
that advocate a very different future for Iraq than the bitter reality
of internal repression and external aggression that the current regime
in Baghdad now offers.
Let me be clear on what the U.S. objectives are: The United States
wants Iraq to rejoin the family of nations as a freedom-loving and
law-abiding member. This is in our interest and that of our allies
within the region.
The United States favors an Iraq that offers its people freedom at
home. I categorically reject arguments that this is unattainable due
to
Iraq's history or its ethnic or sectarian make-up. Iraqis deserve and
desire freedom like everyone else. The United States looks forward to
a
democratically supported regime that would permit us to enter into a
dialogue leading to the reintegration of Iraq into normal
international
life.
My Administration has pursued, and will continue to pursue, these
objectives through active application of all relevant United Nations
Security Council resolutions. The evidence is overwhelming that such
changes will not happen under the current Iraq leadership.
In the meantime, while the United States continues to look to the
Security Council's efforts to keep the current regime's behavior in
check, we look forward to new leadership in Iraq that has the support
of the Iraqi people. The United States is providing support to
opposition groups from all sectors of the Iraqi community that could
lead to a popularly supported government.
On October 21, 1998, I signed into law the Omnibus Consolidated and
Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999, which made $8 million
available for assistance to the Iraqi democratic opposition. This
assistance is intended to help the democratic opposition unify, work
together more effectively, and articulate the aspirations of the Iraqi
people for a pluralistic, participa--tory political system that will
include all of Iraq's diverse ethnic and religious groups. As required
by the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for FY 1998 (Public
Law 105-174), the Department of State submitted a report to the
Congress on plans to establish a program to support the democratic
opposition. My Administration, as required by that statute, has also
begun to implement a program to compile information regarding
allegations of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes by
Iraq's current leaders as a step towards bringing to justice those
directly responsible for such acts.
The Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 provides additional, discretionary
authorities under which my Administration can act to further the
objectives I outlined above. There are, of course, other important
elements of U.S. policy. These include the maintenance of U.N.
Security
Council support efforts to eliminate Iraq's weapons and missile
programs and economic sanctions that continue to deny the regime the
means to reconstitute those threats to international peace and
security. United States support for the Iraqi opposition will be
carried out consistent with those policy objectives as well.
Similarly,
U.S. support must be attuned to what the opposition can effectively
make use of as it develops over time. With those observations, I sign
H.R. 4655 into law.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON
THE WHITE HOUSE,
October 31, 1998.
Middle East & Islamic Studies, URL:
http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast
Ali Houissa, The Middle East & Islamic Studies Bibliographer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq#Invasion_legitimacy
In October 2002, with the "Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of
United States Armed Forces Against Iraq" (Adopted 296-133 by the House
of Representatives and 77-23 by the Senate), the United States
Congress
granted President Bush the authority to wage war against Iraq.
