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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SecularBull who wrote (370101)	3/12/2003 11:55:51 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

McCain: War on Saddam is 'Just' Arizona Senator John McCain, in an op-ed piece in today's New York Times, plainly states the case for disarming Iraq: America feels threatened, and we will act. In his column "The Right War for the Right Reasons" McCain writes that America, not the U.N., is the only group President Bush is sworn to protect. Yet, he appears to care more for the sanctimonious Security Council than it's members. McCain writes: "Clearly, the administration cares more about the credibility of the Security Council than do other council members who demand the complete disarmament of the Iraqi regime yet shrink from the measures needed to enforce that demand. "But their lack of resolve does not free an American president from his responsibility to protect the security of this country. Both houses of Congress, by substantial margins, granted the president authority to use force to disarm Saddam Hussein. That is all the authority he requires." And as for whether or not a war on the regime of Saddam Hussein is right and just, and regarding the issues of "more time for inspections" and a possible "rush to war," McCain wonders why the world has only recently started its clock on Saddam, when the countdown to his demise should have started in 1991? "After 12 years of economic sanctions, two different arms-inspection forces, several Security Council resolutions and, now, with more than 200,000 American and British troops at his doorstep ... Only an obdurate refusal to face unpleasant facts - in this case, that a tyrant who survives only by the constant use of violence is not going to be coerced into good behavior by nonviolent means - could allow one to believe that we have rushed to war." Indeed, many of the momentus, violent and destructive events of the past few years may have been averted had the U.N. enforced any of the dozen and a half resolutions regarding Iraq. But there are still those who feel that a war with Iraq would spur further attacks and violence from radical Muslims. To that, Mr. McCain says: "Isn't it more likely that antipathy toward the United States in the Islamic world might diminish amid the demonstrations of jubilant Iraqis celebrating the end of a regime that has few equals in its ruthlessness? Wouldn't people ... be encouraged to see the human rights of Muslims valiantly secured by Americans?" A veteran himself, McCain knows the value of such security, and the sacrifices needed to maintain it. He writes, "Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq - a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. "May God bless them and may humanity honor their sacrifice." newsmax.com