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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Just_Observing who wrote (8568)	2/15/2003 3:38:16 PM
From: HG	Respond to of 25898

Instinct for self preservation yes, but it goes hand in hand with intense hatred. America is not the only country which makes friends out of the enemy of its enemy. Saddam could have gotten (or may get) rid of his arsenal by transferring it to a hostile country.... From here on we're moving to polarisation of the world. I have a bad feeling that this war has already been initiated and will happen eventually.........and it will be much worse than it would be now. By his foolish rhetoric, Bush has lit a candle under a bag of explosives....

To: Just_Observing who wrote (8568)	2/15/2003 3:39:21 PM
From: BubbaFred	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

<<About 180 children die everyday due to the effects of the last war.>> That's from the chemical and depleted uranium that US forces used during the Gulf War. Some US soldiers got it too, accidentally.

To: Just_Observing who wrote (8568)	2/15/2003 3:46:21 PM
From: David Lawrence	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

>>Besides, Iraq's neighbors don't perceive it as a threat. So why do we? Of course they don't.... as long as we're there to make sure they don't become one. Otherwise, you don't think Kuwait, Saudi, and Iran would be quaking in their boots? Those governments are all in between a rock and a hard place. If we continue to contain Saddam indefinitely, they maintain their tenuous hold on power. If we walk away, Saddam rebuilds and invades them. If we take out Saddam and manage to promote a representative government, they will ultimately fall to internal revolution in their own countries. Given those options, is it any wonder they are in favor of maintaining the status quo? Has the entire history of this thread been equally blind to the realities of the region?