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Originally posted by Yorick:
Who cares about WoMD. WOMD is an extremely selfish motivator. Self self self. America has WOMD. For me, it was never about WOMD.
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Well I care. I care because my elected leader told me we were going to war because there was an imminent threat that Saddam would use WoMD against us. That is how he sold the war to us, that is how he sold the war to his own party, that is how he sold the war to the House of Commons.
45 minutes he said! That was how long it would take Saddam to fire his WoMD at us! How on earth can he have got it so wrong.
I can see that the end result of the war was to remove an evil dictator. But that wasn't put forward by Blair until he realised there were no WoMD If Blair had said that was the reason for war I would support him. But at the back of my mind I can't help thinking - this was the first time that Britain had gone to war on the basis of intelligence reports, and they were totally wrong, how can I possibly trust Tony Blair any more? Is it right for a leader to mislead the people about the reason for war - even if the end results are beneficial? He might not be so lucky next time.
We all shake our heads when we hear about terrorism - but deep down the West only do anything about terrorism when their interests are threatened. What are we going to do about Chechen terrorism, about Maoist terrorists in Nepal, about terrorists in the Sudan where genocide is about to take place?
The answer is nothing will be done - because it doesn't affect us.
That's why Iraq is not part of the war on terrorism. Iraq had some links to Middle East terrorist groups - but those groups weren't threatening the US/UK, the war on Iraq was part of a whole different agenda! An agenda, that Richard Clarke's revelations at the weekend show, is slowly emerging.
[ 03-22-2004, 05:58 AM: Message edited by: Donut ]