I've often wondered if those who are opposed to the effort to dislodge the Iraqi government and destroy the weapons proscribed by the UN realize that the net effect of their opposition is to support the killing of the Iraqi people and to endorse the use of chemical and biological weapons. I say that because that's exactly what Iraq has done over the years. Sadaam has killed more Iraqi's and more muslims than anyone else over the past two decades! Hundreds of thousands. He gassed the Kurds in the north and the Iranian's during their eight year war. He's tortured his people by having prisoners stand naked in shower rooms while acid drips from above. Eventually, they die. I can't believe a government would hold the families of their people hostage and under the threat of death as a means of motivating the men to fight for the regime in power. Iraq is doing just that.

I'm at a loss to know how anyone can support the notion he should be given more and more time. SH is a cancer and delaying his surgical removal only lets it spread.

Oh, on the censorship issue. I don't think so. Censorship is PREVENTING news organizations from reporting the news. I've seen US media reporting on pros and cons of the war. Certainly our government ... and the British, and the French, and the German and the Russian, and all the others ... express their point of view ... but in the US (at least), we also hear the other side. No censorship.

And, as far as the oil argument ... I rather suspect that the major countries opposed to the war have more oil contracts with Iraq and are far more dependent on Iraqi oil than the US and have far more invested in Iraqi oil production as well.

Are these points of view being reported in Europe or in the middle east. Are Tony Blair's speechs and and reports to Parliment being covered. I hope so. It would be a shame if they're not.

I do understand people not wanting war. No one should. I just hope the war is over with soon with minimal loss of life on both sides. I hope we all come to see the day when Iraqi children are free to grow up without fear of their own government and a day when the oil and resources of the country are used for THEIR benefit and not to build palaces for a brutal dictator.