"But the world isn't like that."

[jbor]

Terrance wrote:

>> 
>> "Stop the bomb/ing" I can agree with, and this is what most nations which
>> are represented at the UN, including, I think, the US, are working towards.
>> Clearly, appeasement is not the solution.
>> 
>> best
> 
> This is not true. The USA is certainly not working  towards peace or
> working to  halt the current bombings.

I think it is true. They are certainly working towards stopping future
terrorist attacks (attacks which Saddam has praised), towards peace in the
Middle East etc etc, and have paid heed to what the UN has said all along. I
don't think the policy of isolationism worked particularly well in the long
run for either the US or the rest of the world in the world wars, and the
current situation is nothing like US aggression in Vietnam or Korea. It's a
bit like the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Bush isn't affiliated with terrorism. It's quite possible that Saddam is.

> The USA is preparing the
> "legal"  groundwork to escalate the war on Iraq. And it has laid that
> groundwork as it has escalated the war. I think it's obvious that the
> USA will continue to escalate the war and prepare the world for what it
> plans to do, that is, bomb the hell out of Iraq. Bush is  going to get
> rid of SH. 

He'd like to. And Saddam is a tyrannical dictator. Much of Bush's rhetoric
was aimed at getting the UN to become a little more determined about getting
the weapons inspectors back into Iraq. That's the important first step.
Without the real threat of military strikes, and evidence that Bush & co.
mean it, Saddam could have just kept palming the UN off as he has been for
years. Whatever the UN Security Council decides this week, it won't be
motivated by trying to appease Saddam.

If Saddam hasn't been manufacturing weapons of mass destruction he's got
nothing to worry about ("So, he can 'just relax, fella'.") If he is, why is
he? Think about it.

best

 
> Is it about oil, revenge, blah, blah? No.
> 
> It's far more complicated. But the facts are that Bush is waging war not
> peace on Iraq.