Sanctions on Iraq

...That bias leads directly to another: the government that governs least _5_ Hot or not...

...When the metaphor is theft, tax cuts are taken as a form of restitution...

...Others range from political satire ("Am I President or not...

...Even more stark than the effect of radioactive contaminants on veterans and local populations, however, is another, continuing action against Iraq...

...In the immediate future, the Federal Reserve's lowering of interest rates is likely to work more smoothly and more quickly...

...Not for the lukewarm "A Disembodied 'Theology of the Body'" reminded me to look again at C.S...

...I sure would like to know...

...are nasty— a Bush /Cheney campaign poster is the first image you see—while others are plain bizarre ("Am I interested in weather shielding for my brickwork or not...

...The principal issue, of course, is how to interpret orientation itself...

...A plea beneath the photo reads "Please help keep this site fun, clean, and real...

...C ORRESPONDENCE A clarification In my letter inquiring about the church's agenda regarding a sexual orientation that it considers objectively disordered, the editors of Commonweal replied, "We doubt that the official church is supporting research to eliminate gays through genetic surgery, or otherwise" (January 12, 2001...

...Hoping & praying I thoroughly enjoyed Jerry Ryan's "1054 & All That" (January 12,2001...

...My thought was: with my weak faith, do I really need to read discussions about the deficiencies in the Catholic church as perceived by others...

...Sex & the pope Luke Timothy Johnson has gotten it right ("A Disembodied 'Theology of the Body/" January 26,2001...

...And Alan Greenspan's mixed blessing a few days later (cut, but not too much...

...But that was last January...

...The January 26 issue was the last straw...

...After thinking about the article, I concluded that it produced some very thought-provoking ideas...

...In addition, a UN inquiry in Kosovo had found that eight of eleven areas where the shells had been used were still contaminated with low-level radiation...

...In the coming months, look for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to issue norms for a Catholic Internet rating system, tentatively titled Ex corde Webesiae...

...Furthermore, since widespread water contamination persists, a result of bombed-out infrastructure and the curtailment of chemical production and importation, dysentery and gastroenteritis are rampant, affecting both the old and the young...

...On average, 5,000 Iraqi citizens have died each month since the war, according to the Courant, as the result of UN sanctions leveled against the regime of Saddam Hussein...

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...In March 2000, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan openly expressed concern about sanctions on Iraq...

...It is rare to find this in a single voice...

...One is forced to ponder: If the purpose of sanctions is to oust Saddam Hussein, are they working...

...It was related not to mad cow disease but to depleted uraniumtipped shells fired by NATO in Bosnia (1994-95) and Kosovo (1999...

...Even nihilists can find a home in cyberspace at the Web site "Am I not or not...

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...Yet everything that the Bush administration hopes to accomplish, from education reform to modernizing the military to providing Medicare prescription coverage, may depend on marshaling resources that lie in those surpluses, to say nothing of all that needs doing and currently goes unattended...

...The new one is likely to take a harder line toward Iraq...

...My inquiry was directed toward the implications of the current, official institutional position of the church...

...Simply stated: How will it respond, assuming no change in its present stance on nonheterosexual orientations, if the cause(s) of such orientations are uncovered in the future and subsequently the orientations themselves are subject to change within the canons of acceptable ethical norms...

...ANTHONY DI RUSSO Greenville, N.H...

...Lewis's Mere Christianity and his comparison of contemporary sexuality and gluttony...

...other Western Europeans are not so sure...

...to the philosophical ("Am I an existentialist or not...

...Reducing the federal deficit used to be a Republican mantra...

...During the Gulf War (1991), more than 900,000 rounds of such ammunition were fired (compared to 31,000 rounds in Kosovo and 11,000 in Bosnia...

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...The article by Luke Timothy Johnson attempts to take Pope John Paul II to task, thereby defining his deficiency, for not showing some "appreciation for the goodness of sexual pleasure...

...I'm sending in my check today...

...It would be excellent for Johnson to expand these topics and to open the dialogue for those who would join him in his plea for a revisiting of Humanae vitae...

...Indeed, the promised cut of $1.6 trillion was the first order of business in the Senate the Monday after inauguration day...

...I hope and pray that I will be able to see this happen in my lifetime...

...6 NOTEBOOK SANCTIONS ON IRAQ Ten years & counting Last month, a wave of medical concern raised a hot debate in Western Europe...

...and John Conyers (D-Mich...

...Taxpayers know better than the government how to spend their money...

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...Samples are being examined for toxicity in five European countries, and an official assessment is expected in March...

...Sources dose to the curia claim the Vatican is in talks with AOL / Time Warner to develop a site...

...As an educator of adolescents and a married mother of three, I have searched for writings that present a balanced view of the gift of sexuality, including both its pleasurable and difficult aspects...

...As noted in the original letter, until such time as the church can adopt a more neutral stance on the interpretation of the orientation itself, the dialogue will remain one of defensive posturing...

...In a time of budget surpluses, it is an offer that few will resist...

...Three years (and many prayers) later, the sanctions remain in force, scarcely reshaped or narrowed...

...Take the promised tax cuts: the first and almost only extended round of applause during Bush's speech went to the reiteration of his campaign promise to cut taxes...

...AmICatholicOrNot.com hasn't yet emerged...

...If you've ever asked yourself that question, here's a Web site for you: www.AmIHotOrNot.com...

...When the home page appears you are greeted with an image of a man or a woman underneath a beauty ballot...

...Did they cause a growing number of cancer- and leukemia-related deaths among NATO veterans...

...I have enough questions of my own...

...and British experts say no...

...One member lists among her hobbies "drinking/getting drunk," "wrestling," and "building sand castles...

...While the Courant series in no way exonerated Hussein for his failure to meet UN requirements, and blistered him for refusing to release humanitarian aid to the Iraqi people, nonetheless it reported that during the period sanctions have been in place, percapita annual income in Iraq has dropped from $3,500 to $750...

...In calling for civility, courage, compassion, and character, he spoke to the desire of many for greater national comity and citizen accountability...

...Where else can you get all this for $44 per year...

...and mortality rates for children under five have quadrupled (UNICEF estimates some 500,000 premature deaths in that subgroup...

...In looking at the ecumenical movement, Ryan pointed out real possibilities and opportunities to come together and share our faith without our traditions inhibiting our worship and dialogue...

...Many of the details for cuts are still to be worked out and they may prove to be more prudent and equitable than they sounded during the campaign...

...Moreover, as you are well aware, a sexual orientation is only one component of the totality of personhood...

...At the same time, they argue that the UN's sanctions have neither undermined Hussein's will to survive nor significantly weakened his hold on power...

...Johnson is also sensitive to the hidden sexist underpinnings of much of the current church teaching and to the basic logical flaws in many of its supportive arguments...

...the letter argued that "morally, it is wrong to hold the Iraqi people responsible for the actions of a brutal and reckless government...

...There was much to applaud in Bush's brief address, though to his credit, the president did not play his lines for easy applause...

...More than three years ago, Bishop Anthony Pilla, then president of the U.S...

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...One Canadian expert, the Courant reported, has warned of likely lung cancers developing among Gulf War veterans...

...Or again, has anyone demonstrated that dissent from Humanae vitae has produced more stable and faithful marriages...

...Instead, Bush instinctively appeals to a hardy American prejudice: taxation is a form of confiscation...

...If not in ten years, in fifteen...

...And morally, if not politically and militarily, when do sanctions become objectionable...

...RAY TOLOSKO West Newbury, Mass...

...Why is contraceptive intercourse not like the Romans' vomitorium...

...Some, like "Am I capable of understanding basic logic or not...

...per-capita daily protein intake has fallen from 81.6 grams to 53.3 grams, landing the country on the list of nations endangered by malnutrition...

...President Bush insisted that we take our responsibilities seriously both in this country and in the world, reminding us that "compassion is the work of a nation, not just a government...

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...Robert j. comiskey Springfield, Va...

...the deficit could reemerge if surpluses fail to materialize) was taken by Republicans as an order to move full speed ahead...

...Patrick Jordan I (Continued from page 4) goodness of sexual pleasure" more than enough...

...He urged that we think of ourselves as "citizens, not spectators...

...casualties in Vietnam—and there has been a change in U.S...

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...If not yet, when might they...

...The polarities of views on this question range from the "objectively disordered" to "a gift of God...

...Halliday warns that although the sanctions have failed to dislodge Hussein, they have turned a whole generation of younger Iraqis against the West, creating a veritable breeding ground for future extremists...

...As many economists have pointed out, there appears to be little economic justification for tax cuts that will kick in after the current slowdown has ended...

...A year ago, seventy members of Congress sent President Bill Clinton a bipartisan letter stating that the UN sanctions offered the Iraqi government little incentive to comply...

...Absent the particulars, examine and consider the justifications for the cuts frequently repeated by Bush and Company: "The surplus belongs to the taxpayer, not to the government...

...And by the way, for what it's worth from a nontheologian, I think the advertisers, media, celebrities and population in general, promote "the (Continued on page 30) 4 Taxing rhetoric To the surprise of many Americans, George W. Bush delivered an elegant inaugural address on January 20...

...Pope John Paul II has a specific message to convey, and there are at least two of us who think his message is right on...

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...According to Dennis Halliday, the UN's former coordinator of aid to Iraq, the UN embargo has "pushed the Iraqi people back toward Saddam," undermining the sanctions' stated goal...

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...Yet, as carefully crafted as the speech was in its appeal for the nation "to seek a common good beyond your comfort, to defend needed reforms against easy attacks, to serve your nation, beginning with your neighbor," it also exposed the contradictions embedded in the Republican agenda—contradictions that belie the president's appeal to the common good...

...According to a series published last fall in the Hartford Courant (October 22-25,2000), birth defects in Iraq have nearly tripled since the end of the war, raising the issue of whether the use of depleted uranium-tipped weapons bears greater scrutiny there...

...As a candidate, George W. Bush called for a strengthening of sanctions, and Hussein will no doubt be a primary focus of Bush's foreign policy—in terms of energy security and family honor...

...Such facts are slowly beginning to dawn on the American public...

...Polio, meningitis, and typhoid—all nearly eradicated before the war—are also on the rise, and cases of cholera quadrupled between 1997 and 1999, from 486 to 2,398...

...Johnson is careful to be inclusive of concerns of men and women, heterosexual and homosexual, single and married...

...It would be interesting to see an article explaining why the analogy is unreasonable...

...If I have an open mind to the Bible and to the magisterium, then those ideas can result in very wholesome and faithstrenghening thoughts...

...Furthermore, down the line the cuts could turn out to be inflationary, bringing back the huge deficit that the Clinton administration inherited from the last Republican interregnum and finally tamed with the discipline supplied by the aforementioned Alan Greenspan...

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...Paul O'Neill, secretary of the treasury, acknowledged at his confirmation hearings the high priority a tax cut has in the new administration...

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...I never stated, or implied, that the church is supporting research to eliminate gays (human persons...

...He described them as a blunt instrument which "hurt large numbers of people who are not their primary targets...

...Catholic bishops' conference, wrote to Patriarch Raphael Bidawid of Baghdad, his Iraqi counterpart, saying that while the international community held the Iraqi government accountable for threatening the peace, world leaders must not "hold the Iraqi people hostage or harm innocent people...

...Drawn up by Tom Campbell (R-Calif...

...Writing in the May/June 1999 issue of Foreign Affairs, John and Karl Mueller describe comprehensive state sanctions as an "impressive method" of mass destruction...

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...Since then there have been an additional sixty thousand sanction-related deaths—more than the number of U.S...

...Pilla noted that the UN sanctions should be "reviewed, reshaped, and narrowed to achieve their legitimate objectives of ending threats to peace," and promised that the American bishops would hold the Iraqis' sufferings "in our hearts and prayers...