Eindelijk bevat Vrij Nederland eens een artikel over internet.

Chris van der Heijden inventariseert sites met gegevens en meningen over de kwestie Irak.
VN heeft geen eigen site om naar te verwijzen (staat wel aangekondigd), dus geef ik hier twee adressen door.

Het eerste laat een artikel uit The Independent lezen, van Midden-Oosten-correspondent Robert Fisk.

?Take a look at the statistics on the ratio of reserve to oil production ?? the number of years that reserves of oil will last at current production rates ?? compiled by Jeremy Rifkin in Hydrogen Economy. In the US, where more than 60 per cent of the recoverable oil has already been produced, the ratio is just 10 years, as it is in Norway. In Canada, it is 8:1. In Iran, it is 53:1, in Saudi Arabia 55:1, in the United Arab Emirates 75:1. In Kuwait, it's 116:1. But in Iraq, it's 526:1. And this forthcoming war isn't about oil??

Op het tweede adres is een interview uit The Guardian te vinden met anti-oorlogsveteraan Noam Chomsky.

?Now there's no objective reason why the US should be more frightened of Saddam than say the Kuwaitis, but there is a reason - namely that since September there's been a drumbeat of propaganda trying to bludgeon people into the belief that not only is Saddam a terrible person but in fact he's going to come after us tomorrow unless we stop him today. And that reaches people. So if you want to understand the actual opposition to the war in the US you have to extract that factor. The factor of completely irrational fear created by massive propaganda, and if you did I think you'd find it's much like everywhere else.?

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