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

To: Steeny who wrote (21591)	3/16/2003 4:05:59 AM
From: PartyTime	Respond to of 25898

THE BATTLE ITSELF: (Compilation of multiple media sources) smh.com.au smh.com.au news.independent.co.uk willthomas.net newsday.com reuters.com newsday.com smh.com.au reese.king-online.com

To: Steeny who wrote (21591)	3/16/2003 6:45:07 AM
From: Crimson Ghost	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 25898

Not a Jewish conspiracy but a right wing Zionist (Likudnik) conspiracy without a doubt. And the Likudniks are the dominant force in the Jewish community now unfortunately. How sad and tragic that the Jewish community now lead by Likudnik fanatics has become the primary force for war and threat to peace in the world today.

To: Steeny who wrote (21591)	3/16/2003 11:36:11 AM
From: Ed Huang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

Not to mention the real motive or whether the 3 reasons on your list are solid. What the Iraq War advocates failed to consider or deliberately ignored is the grave consequences America and the world are facing due to the forthcoming war. I have discussed the issue in my post in January(post#3268), let me just bring it up again: ...the following high risks or consequences are inevitable, as I can see: - U.S. will lose its major western allies and may even has serious risk to turn the allies into hostile countries. NATO may be disbanded and EU may form their own military organization. - U.S. will lose all Arab allies. The Arab countries and the people there will become hostile or more hostile to the U.S. - Once the war is started, can Bush & Co. keep it under control? or will it ignite another major world war? How much we can trust Bush & Co on this? Note, our world has many thousands of nuclear warheads available for a war this time. - U.S. will lose its moral leadership and friends around the world. This in turn will make Americans doing business or travel abroad very difficult and dangerous, besides the political and diplomatic sufferings. - Huge war expenses is a big drag on the already weak U.S. economy. - As the invasion in Iraq starts, the risk of revenge attacks on the U.S. from Iraq or from other "terrorists" are greatly increased. Even Donald Rumsfeld pointed out that the enemies have learn not to fight against the U.S. head-on, they are very likely to make attacks inside the U.S. No body including the FBI and CIA can guarantee that another 9/11 or bigger attacks can be prevented. The war will put Americans' lives and properties in much higher risks. Once a major attack hit again, the U.S. economy will also suffer another great blow. - When the U.S. government directs its resources (including the FBI man power, etc.) to focus on the national securities against the terrorist attacks and set loose on the social crimes controls during the war, what will happen then? - As the sentiments and momentum against the war growing rapidly in America. Can the domestic unrest be avoided once the war starts? - And very importantly, what about the risks of lives of the American men and women in the Iraq war? And what about tens of thousands of these soldiers’ risk of the Gulf War Symptoms as a result of the war? (Adding one more obvious reason for this post: There will be 3,000 bombs poured into Iraqi land in the first 48 hours of the war and will be tens of thousands bombs to follow next. Which will be sure to kill tens or even hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, among them will include high % innocent civilians). Many of the above risks have already become facts today, more will be likely so as the current direction continues. I, along with the anti-war people, don’t believe the grave consequences and risks are acceptable to the U.S. and the world community. It will be very dangerous to Israel’s long-term well-being as well.