06-13-2003, 10:08 AM
Well..
1. Paul Wolfowitz acknowledged that WMD were a purely political motivation for starting the war. There was no certainty that Iraq had them, and in fact apparently they DIDN'T.
2. The UN weapons inspectors were not allowed in just after the war ended. Any weapon found now could very well have been planted by the US military and it will be very hard to prove otherwise.
3. And even if Iraq did have WMD, the US have no moral right to invade on those grounds because the US have FAR MORE WMD than any other country in the world (and even used them, like in Hiroshima). You can invade on whatever reason you want, except that one. That's just calling everyone else an imbecille.
4. So.. you can keep thinking the war was a "Crusade on Evil", or you can realize the strategic position of Iraq and note that today the US are in control of the 2nd largest oil reserves in the world, that the Iraqi oil ministery was the only ministery the US guarded after Baghdad was taken, that the US now have a huge military base for operating in the middle-east outside Saudi Arabia, that $75 billion from US tax payers were spent on bombing a country which 60%+ of the those tax payers can't even point in the map, that the whole region is on fire and loathsome of the US and pretty willing to repeat 9/11 if that's the only way they have to strike back.
1. Paul Wolfowitz acknowledged that WMD were a purely political motivation for starting the war. There was no certainty that Iraq had them, and in fact apparently they DIDN'T.
2. The UN weapons inspectors were not allowed in just after the war ended. Any weapon found now could very well have been planted by the US military and it will be very hard to prove otherwise.
3. And even if Iraq did have WMD, the US have no moral right to invade on those grounds because the US have FAR MORE WMD than any other country in the world (and even used them, like in Hiroshima). You can invade on whatever reason you want, except that one. That's just calling everyone else an imbecille.
4. So.. you can keep thinking the war was a "Crusade on Evil", or you can realize the strategic position of Iraq and note that today the US are in control of the 2nd largest oil reserves in the world, that the Iraqi oil ministery was the only ministery the US guarded after Baghdad was taken, that the US now have a huge military base for operating in the middle-east outside Saudi Arabia, that $75 billion from US tax payers were spent on bombing a country which 60%+ of the those tax payers can't even point in the map, that the whole region is on fire and loathsome of the US and pretty willing to repeat 9/11 if that's the only way they have to strike back.