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Politics : Idea Of The Day
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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (43154)8/25/2002 3:58:34 PM
From: Steve Lee  Read Replies (1) of 50167
 
"but characters like Aideed, Saddam and Osama are our creation, lets not wash our hands from them, to eradicate them is also our responsibility"

Quite true but it is a very big task to eradicate them all. It might be useful to focus on making an effort not to indulge in such creations in the future.

I think Bush is failing in his attempt to convince the world to attack Saddam because he is putting forward the wrong reasons. The right reason, as you have hinted at, would be to remove an evil dictator who is causing the Iraqi people to suffer. The wrong reason is because of his "weapons of mass destruction". Saddam will use such weapons in one circumstance only - if his life or leadership depends on it. He had the opportunity to use those weapons against the US led forces a decade ago, or to use them in his Scud missile attacks on Israel. As far as I know, he refrained. I don't see why Iraq is any more of a threat to the rest of the world than any of the other numerous nations that have such weapons. Should we get them all? Why single out Iraq?
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