How would YOU 'wage Peace' in Iraq

national | miscellaneous | news report Wednesday February 19, 2003 03:59 by Phuq Hedd - War Insomniacs League

Jonathan Freedland in the Guardian suggests how to win the peace

Freedland takes on the the "well, what would you do if you don't want to bomb the Iraqi people into freedom?" argument. Interesting suggestions include allowing the Hussein regime to sell oil but the money goes into a UN-controlled fund and is only released if democratic reforms are implemented. So, read the article and what do YOU propose?

My suggestions:

1. Stop the Turks from massacring the Kurds. Let the Kurds get on with their own business.

2. Allow the proposed UN-democracy fund above

3. (Excludes 2 for obvious reasons) EU pledges to support with airpower any risings against Hussein

4. Prevent the development of further Husseins by banning US-support of un-democratic regimes as determined by a majority vote of the UN General Assembly.

These are just off the top of my head and I only really feel that 4 is completely reasonable. I'm suspicious that 2 and 3 would be abused.

Add your own below.