Iraq's threat to peace and security

[Richard Fiero]

Terrance wrote:
>. . .
>The US, its current Administration, the Congress, the Military 
>want war with Iraq. To stop them we can't play with words or the facts. . . .

It's not clear that the US military wants a war without a clear 
and winnable objective. It's becoming clear that Mr. Bush's 
rhetoric has disaggregated our allies and aggregated our 
enemies. It may be important to leave Mr. Bush plenty of room 
to back away from his rhetoric without losing face since the 
consequences for civilian populations may be severe. Perhaps 
Mr. Bush has imagined himself to be strutting about the world 
stage issuing demands and delivering threats and getting 
nothing but catcalls from the audience with one particularly 
obnoxious gesture from North Korea. This guy loses much more 
credibility we're all going to be in trouble.
Stay home. Smoke a joint and listen to NPR drone on and on.
Facts? Check out what Bush and Cheney did to the companies they ran.

Currently:
>AFGHAN DRUG CROP INCREASING. Ali Hashemi, the head of Iran's
>antinarcotics bureau, told a narcotics conference in Tehran on 14
>October that a large influx of drugs is heading towards Europe. The
>speaker blamed the international community for failing to deal with
>this problem. The estimates for this year's opium harvest in
>Afghanistan have been placed at between 3,500 to 4,000 tons, close to
>the record crop of 4,500 tons in 1999. . .