A Dove In The Hand

[jbor]

Regardless of Bush's motives, which I don't think you've analysed accurately
here, so far he has complied and co-operated with the UN, which is a good
thing. The more power and relevance the UN has the better in my opinion, and
this Iraq fiasco is becoming a bit of a test case. Hans Blix's report was
damning, and something needs to be done about it.

Saddam, buoyed by the wave of anti-war sentiment in the West, has said that
he will invade Kuwait and any other country which harbours American forces.
He's looking pretty smug at the moment. He would love to be able to give the
UN weapons inspectors their marching orders again, and carry on with his
biological, chemical and missile weapons programs, which he has used in
genocidal-type campaigns against displaced minorities within his own country
in the past 10-15 years.

Sad to say it, but the anti-war protesters - particularly those anti-Bushies
who are only using the conflict as a pretext for political propaganda in an
effort to enact regime change in the U.S. - are playing right into Saddam's
hands at present. 

Saddam must disarm. Then, no war in Iraq. First things first.

best



on 29/1/03 6:28 AM, Cyrus at cyrusgeo at netscape.net wrote:

> Tao Te Ching is a great text which can be easily put to practice, if one
> is willing. However, the notion that Bush might even "listen to Lao Tzu"
> lies in the realm of fantasy, not to mention absurdity. The war on Iraq
> has been decided many months ago (in fact, before the attack on
> Afghanistan). No matter how many protests take place in the US (he
> doesn't give a damn about protests in other countries anyway), the war
> will still happen, because he and his counsellors feel it would be good
> for the economy, which hasn't been doing well lately. And in this day
> and age, unfortunately, economy is a primary concern.