
03-18-2003, 04:19 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Culver City, CA, US
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Originally posted by jennaflower
I think I have become pretty vocal as of late with my opinion...
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Please keep speaking up! Everyone! It's the only way things get worked out.
To express my opinion on this subject, I believe the current administration has chosen to ignore and defy the vast majority opinion of the world, and strong opinion here in the US.
Possible mid-range outcome: - Chirac becomes defacto leader and spokesperson for the EU, making them a superpower to rival the US.
This war spawns ten times the terrorists we have now, planting seeds for future terrorism that will make 9/11 seem like childsplay.
China will assume Soveriegn Authority to invade Taiwan.
Russia will assume Soveriegn Authority to level Chechnya.
Instead of rendering the UN irrelevant, the world will render the US less relevant.
Hussein and his sons will escape at the last minute to one of his few refuges (Libya? Cuba?) and will continue to be an angry wasp spewing hatred into the world. I think it was irresponsible of Bush to offer this option.
Bin Laden is laughing at us. He is our enemy, and we haven't been able to figure out how to find him (maybe at the last minute, these 150,000 troops will all of a sudden turn up on the Pakistan/Afghanistan border and cream everything in sight until Osama is found).
Israel is under UN resolution sanction to pull out of occupied territory. Why don't we invade them unilaterally for defying a UN resolution?
Nobody thinks Hussein has nuclear weapons, or any means to deliver these or other weapons to US targets, so he doesn't post an active threat to our security. It is proper to defend the weak against a bully, and it may be proper to defend a people against their corrupt leader, but this is not in our self-defense interests.
The best way to save and support our men and women in the service is to not send them into war.
If we attack tomorrow, and Saddam kills tens of thousands of his own with chemical or biological weapons, the blood will be on our hands, too. These deaths would not have occurred if we would not have attacked, at least not at this time.
I put two columns on a page and wrote down pros and cons about this war. Other than "Saddam is bad", I couldn't come up with a reason to support this action; I remain morally and spiritually opposed to this.
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