War is a horrible thing. It means that diplomacy failed. But I must say that, during the UN deliberations as I watched Dominique de Villepin of France speak, all I could see was Neville Chamberlain holding up the Munich Agreement saying "peace in our time".

I hold a BA degree in American History. This doesn't make me an expert in anything but I did learn something about the lessons of history. From those learnings I do believe that, today, Saddam is Adolf Hitler from 1937-1938. The Allies waited too long to confront Hitler as he repeatedly and openly violated the Treaty of Versailles in building an army, navy, and weapons of mass destruction. They even APPEASED him (Czechoslovakia, 1938). Eight years later, the price the world paid for waiting was terrible.

That scar is still upon us.

I'm not for war. It is a nasty, nasty business. Innocents die. But sometimes there is no choice, especially when the world is facing a devil like Saddam. The world tried diplomacy with him for 12 years. During that time, he committed attrocities with chemical weapons, murdered his own people, defied UN resolutions, and harbored terrorists...groups like Ansar al-Islam (linked to al Qaeda) who is suspected of killing a Western journalist in a car bomb attack just a few days ago. He may have even been helping al Qaeda (not proven to my knowledge).

I pray that the Iraqi army surrenders peacefully and quickly, allowing a horrible, brutal dictatorship to be removed so that peace and justice may come to us all in the world.

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