[pritchke]

Originally posted by Cerek the Barbaric: I know this may seem like an odd question...but do we really need to find WoMD to "justify" the war on Saddam Hussein?? Is the reaction of the Iraqi population not "justification" enough?? If you've watched any news reports over the weekend, then you've seen the footage of Iraqi's running up and shaking the hands of American soldiers. You've also seen the Shiite Muslim slapping the picture of Saddam Hussein with his shoe. But the most significant testimony I've heard was on the news this morning. NBC was showing footage of American soldiers tending to wounded Iraqi's (not sure if they were soldiers or civilians). One older man said that 5 members of his family had been killed when a mortar shell from the Coalition Forces struck his home....but he was STILL glad that we had come in to take Saddam Hussein out. How evil does Saddam Hussein have to be for his own citizens to feel it is better for their family to die at the hands of the Coalition Forces than to continue living under his rulership? And - with that being the case - what other "justification" do we really need to end the reign of Saddam Hussein?

That is a very valid question? Another question is why did we wait so long? If we take out these dictators when thay are inflicting harm on people than we are perfectly justified in acting like we did in Kosovo. How ever when we wait decades to do something that isn't right to now say we are going to punish you for what you did 20 years ago when we were standing around doing nothing about things being done to people when we knew they were going on and did nothing. Governments lying about their reasons isn't really right either as I don't like being lied to.

I was all for the Afgan, Kosovo, and GW1 but GW2 I am not so sure about. Even though I was against starting the war now that you are their I don't want it to end without taking out the leader.


[ 03-24-2003, 02:32 PM: Message edited by: pritchke ]