04-24-2003, 11:30 AM
Quote:Mid East stability as a whole
The relationship of Iraq to the Israeli-Palestinian problem
State Sponsored Terrorism
Proliferation of NBC weapons, thirty years of non proliferation efforts having been less than universally successful
UN inability or unwillingness to back up its sanctions
Emotional impact of 9-11.
Viiolations for 12 years of the 1991 cease fire agreements
--Others I may be blind to
- Iraq has one of the biggest oil reserves in the world. Strange that you forgot just that one on your list.
- The US want a second foothold in the region, because both the loyalty and the long-term stability of the regime in Saudi Arabia are uncertain.
- The Iraq conflict was a nice opportunity to bring USA´s potentially biggest concurrent, the "European block", into trouble. Worked quite well, with GB and several of the smaller European countries going in opposition to FranceGermany.
Moldran