Seeing the obvious...
OK, Headrock, questions for you...
1. Who supplied him with those weapons?
2. What does Iraq have to do with the World Trade Centre?
The only thing that's obvious to me is that a load of bull**** gets spread around for why the west should attack Iraq, namely:
The World Trade Centre
This was perpetrated by Al-Qaida...not Iraq. Bin Laden and Saddam hate each other with a passion and have done for a long while
Iraq's weapons of mass destruction
We don't know that he has them. And the USA also has weapons that are on the UN banned list. And the USA also gives UN inspectors the run-around. And the USA also ignores the UN when it feels like it.
His treatment of the Kurds
Fair enough, but then let's pick on China first, as they have killed in excess of a million Tibetans and the genocide continues. And let's not forget the genocide in Eastern Timor in the 90s which was actively supported by the US, Britain and France. The UN wasn't happy about that but I seem to recall the US ignoring them cos it suited its business and economic interests.
And what about our treatment of the Iraqis? 150,000 killed in the last war, 4,500 a month dying ever since down to sanctions...puts the Trade Centre in perspective a little on the numbers front.
His undemocratic rule
Fair enough, but then we're back to China, Saudi Arabia and lots of other 'friends'. When the Chinese Premiere came to Britain last year our police stopped protestors and demonstrators from protesting as the premiere didn't like it...how's that for Western democracy in action? And let's not even start to talk about Israel here...
Saddam's a nutjob
Yep, but then let's look at Dubya. Investigated for dodgy business dealings on 3 separate ocassions - fortunately for him the last one was thrown out of court on the say-so of a commitee headed by - wait for it - George's daddy. And let's not forget that this brave man who's so eager to go to war dodged the draft in '68.
It's all about political expediency and oil. Lots of us are worried at the threat of terrorist attacks, but we think that going to war with Iraq - aside from being immoral - will only increase the risks of those attacks.
If world logic now goes like this: Mr X is a psycho who may have weapons of mass destruction that he may use aginst us in the future, so let's off him now, then we should all be thinking about going to war with the US.
And I include the UK in the umbrella term of the US cos I don't see any difference between the two countries.
Don't think that those of us who don't want war don't see or understand the scale of the problem, we do - it's just the short-termist approach taken by the West only increases the likliehood that the Arab world and the rest will go to war in a major ****ing way.
Everyone knows that the Middle East question needs to be sorted out, and everyone with any intelligence knows that you have to start with Palestine...sadly, you've got a ****ing moron as a leader and so have we.
