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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (3503)	3/26/2003 6:03:52 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

I would just ask you if finding WMD's legitimizes the war. I don't think so. I think very little opposition to the war is based on whether Iraq has or doesn't have WMD. I'm sure everyone has different priorities, so I can only say what mine are. Here's my top three. 1. Pre-emptive policy based on some speculative threat is not bright. And that's what Iraq was: they may have WMD, and they may allign themselves with some terrorist group at sometime in the future and they may decide to give those WMD to that terrorist group that may decide to use them on the US. [the US is not the only target of terrorists in the world.] If I believed in pre-emptive policy as a valid moral national position. Iraq had a much more solid moral case of instituting a pre-emptive attack on the US. 2. After going throught the Atta/Iraq meeting in Prague that never happened; the forged Niger/Iraq documents; the who knows how many sites that we passed on to UN inspectors that never panned out; the completely absurd claim that the latest OBL tape was proof that Saddam and Al Qaeda were linked; the school paper that the Brits plagerized and passed off as "intelligence"....everything we had came up empty. This is a major credibility issue....we don't have any. Finding WMD doesn't mean you can trust the US, we've repeatedly shown that we're more than happy to provide false information. ...Tony Blair might believe that Bush is really interested in addressing the Palestinian/Israeli problem....He might be the only one in Britain that does believe it; the MPs don't seem to believe it. 3. I'd rather been fighting fewer terrorists than more terrorists. And I'd rather that they have fewer people funding them then more. This action has got to be the greatest recruiting tool and fundraiser fundamentalist terrorists have ever seen. If you're going to wage war, it needs to be seen as a just war. The Gulf War was seen that way, this one isn't. Even if/when we find WMD...people have to be able to believe that we really did find WMD and didn't just make it up. jttmab