Thoughts on Iraq

[David Morris]

--- The Great Quail <quail at libyrinth.com> wrote:
> 
> The government of Saddam Hussein is a tyrannical, evil regime [etc]

Which is true, but the only part of that that has anything to do w/ the comming
war is how his weapons will eventually affect us (the West) if left unmolested.
 
> Also, I do not believe inspections will work without the immediate threat of
overwhelming violence. I believe that anyone who "trusts" either the effete and
compromised UN or Hussein himself is hopelessly naïve. The UN is a joke, and
the inspections are the punchline.

Agreed, but it is a joke that must be maintained if we are to keep any form of
order amongst us.
 
> Additionally, I am afraid of what Hussein would do with a nuke. There's
little doubt in my mind that he would aid any enemy of the U.S. Without
hesitation. He is wealthy and smart, this attack-dog we helped create. Now,
just how close he is to having a nuke, I don't know. All I have is mediated
information, which is naturally biased and untrustworthy. But I certainly
believe in his dangerous *intentions.*

This, as well as his bio & chem weapons are the whole point (besides the oil).
 
> So, looks like on the surface, I'm for the war. But yet, I feel very
conflicted. Why? The problem for me is context.
>[...] 
> So I have ambivalent feelings about this war -- I hate Bush and his cronies,
oh I hate them with a passion. Though I think some good may eventually come of
defeating Iraq, I suspect that only greater evil will eventually emerge. In
other words: right war, wrong reasons.

Hussein is a growing destabilizing/threatening force in the region and thus the
world.  The only real question in my mind is "why now?"  The answer to that is
"because we're there."

David Morris

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