The War in Iraq
Published 5 years, 10 months ago in life storiesI’m just as worried as everyone else about the impending war, but this article seems pretty valid and interesting:
Kuro5hin.org: Why the UKUSA won’t tell anybody where the nukes are
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I thought that article was interesting too. It’s interesting how even if you know something, you can’t tell anyone.
To me there are two choices… either the administration is just plain bluffing (read: lying), which I don’t buy, or Iraq actually has the weapons the administration says they do[1], but the inspections (read: sham dog and pony show) can’t find much of anything.[2]
[1] Remember back a few months ago when Britain wasn’t totally on board, and then the US showed them things, and they were like “Ok, you’ve convinced us”?
[2] I saw this on the news (I forget whether it was CNN or what) a while ago: They showed an outline map of Saddam’s palace in Baghdad, then superimposed Buckingham palace on it, and Saddam’s palace simply dwarfed it in size. And the inspectors spent like less than an hour there if (IIRC) and declared the place clean!
A common misconception is that the “weapons inspectors” are looking for the existence of weapons. The fact is, the UN knows that Iraq has or had biological and chemical weapons and was working on nuclear weapons. They already have evidence that the weapons existed.
The UN resolution states that Iraq was to destroy their weapons and then provide evidence that they no longer had the weapons. That’s what the weapons inspectors are there for. To investigate Iraq’s evidence of compliance with that order.
Unless Iraq can prove that they’ve eliminated their weapons programs, they are in breach of the resolution and the UN has promised to use force to make them comply.
Keith: You’re setting up a false dichotomy. The administration can be bluffing *and* Iraq could have undeclared weapons.
The K5 article is interesting, but the author seems to forget that in a democracy, the public has not only a right, but a need to know. The current administration doesn’t have very good habits when it comes to public disclosure (vis: Ari Fleischer). They expect uninformed consent, and seem genuinely offended when they don’t get it.
STOP THE WAR
i think the war is inevitable to happen,but it is the terrible method to attack the other
As 1st Lt. Mark V. Shaney USMC put it so well:
The peace that so-called “peace advocates” support can only be brought to Iraq through the military. And we are doing a tremendous amount of good. Spread the word. No one is poised to make such an amazing contribution to the detriment of our brave heroes fighting for liberty and peace.
What we have to remember is that peace is not free and “peace” without principle is not peace. The peace that so-called “peace advocates” support can only be brought to Iraq through the military.
And we are failing, even if we are making the whole world safer. Your efforts at home and abroad.
Raymond Sautman