The BBC Site

[Mouse]

For those of you interested, the BBC has a very interesting section of it's on-line news site here where comments from around the world have been gathered. My overall impression is that it shows just how split the poeple of Planet Earth are over this action.

One comment in particular caught my eye:-

I am a Canadian, from a country that at least usually stands for peace. At the moment though I am in Cambodia a country that has been torn apart by years of war in which the US played a big role in kicking off. A war is not over when one side wins, it goes on for generations as the people left injured or forced to flee have to pick up the pieces and re-build their lives. The personnel fighting the war suffer as well - the toll is just too high. Yes, terrorism can not be tolerated, but another terrorist act such as war is not the answer.
No matter what, the west should make a stand for peace and show the world that we do not need war to solve conflicts. The US itself has many deadly weapons so the excuse that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction and therefore we should fight them, just makes no sense. I cannot predict what will happen if we do not go to war, however, I do not think we should kill and injure thousands just because Saddam is a potential threat.
Sara Jennings, Canada/Cambodia

I leave it up to you to make up your own minds about this conflict, and hope that the views expressed on this site help you.

[ 03-19-2003, 11:02 AM: Message edited by: Mouse ]