Conflict with Iraq � so � what�s the problem?
October 09, 2002 ~ 11:21 a.m.
Given the nature of the subject, this is something I would normally have chosen to print on Debate It. However, since that page has dissolved into disarray with only a handful of regular readers/writers who are all of an immature and bitter left-wing bent, (one of whom suggests assassinating President Bush as a way to end the crisis with Iraq), it is no wonder why I won�t waste my words there. I will treat my regular readers to this instead. Either way, I�m getting it off my chest.
President Bush has put forth the case time and again for conflict with Iraq if Saddam Hussein does not comply with United Nations resolutions, which the dictator has ignored for eleven years. The West cannot afford d�tente with Iraq when it is clear that Saddam has stockpiles of biological and chemical agents that could wipe out entire populations of other Middle Eastern or European nations. London could be a target. I have to wonder if the holier-than-thou attitude of so many anti-American Brits would be silenced the day Saddam decided to drop one of those lethal concoctions on the British capital? Considering plans that al-Qaeda had to fly a plane into Parliament on September 11 last year, I would say Saddam has every reason to decimate America�s biggest European ally.
Furthermore, did we waste our time in the Gulf War? It is becoming ever apparent that we did. We liberated Kuwait, but we hadn�t removed the danger. Do we have no doubts whatsoever that Saddam�s mad irredentist plans won�t resurface? It is better to start a planned conflict with very clear aims � remove Saddam from power chief among them � than to be dragged into the midst of a war that Saddam has started, which he eventually will.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair, in his speech to a union conference a few weeks ago, stated, �I wouldn�t want it on my hands that we knew the danger, yet did nothing.� The world ignored Hitler who amazed a massive army and weapons for an entire decade before eventually declaring war. You can imagine the same folks who are opposing action against Iraq today, if they were thrown back to 1939, arguing, �OK, so the evidence of massive stockpiles of weapons is clear, and yes, Hitler is clearly a very bad man, but the Germans seem to like him, and if he�s such a horribly guy, why don�t the German people just rise up and topple him?�
Saddam uses resentment of a pro-Israeli West to a certain degree, tapping into anti-American sentiment and thus martyring himself to the Arab world, but more than anything, it is his total control of the Iraqi state that ensures his survival as dictator. How can there be a civil war when the issue is trying to topple a power-mad government? A coup d�etat? It is going to take some mighty military intervention to rid Iraq of Saddam; and we expect normal Iraqi citizens to be able to do the job? State police are everywhere to enforce government rules and bans. Iraq is not a democracy, it is a theocracy ruled by a tyrant. Don�t tell me the Iraqis are capable of handling the situation themselves.
As for American and British dossiers on Iraq, the evidence has been presented, and in speeches the two leaders have given, arguments in favor of conflict have been validated. If we do nothing about Saddam, we will pay for it later and then have no choice but to fight a war � a war for our survival.
I am aware that all across the world, even in America, there are those who would like to don tu-tus and just dance the world�s troubles away, glossing them over and pretending they don�t exist. It doesn�t mean we have to take these sad twits seriously. They are the ones endangering our lives, not Bush and not Blair.
And how convenient that, at a time when we are putting up a fight against terrorist states that would cause us further harm and inflict further destruction upon us, the peaceniks complain that this is all about oil. What a tired old argument. Oil was the issue eleven years ago and it�s the issue now, eh? I see, our boys didn�t fight liberating an independent country from a crazy dictator, they died to protect their nation�s standing with OPEC. Gee, I must have my history wrong. I must bring it into line along with all the revised history textbooks that pupils in Western schools are reading.
Is war with Iraq truly inevitable, as Bush says it is? It may prove to be. But I know one thing. When the rest of the world, including fellow �American� citizens would rather defend a Middle Eastern dictator that can�t be trusted, and instead put the onus on the President and label him a terrorist, then the times we are living in are truly, truly fucked up.
� M.E.M.
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