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War, Terrorism, and an Angry Liberal
Rosencrantz
30 Dec 2002
This past week, and especially weekend, saw the mass movement and gearing up for a war in Iraq. Please note, many (read between the lines: ALL) of these forces were part of the Navy and Army of the United States of America.
The reason for this hawkish behavior is the U.S. assertion that Iraq is in violation of United Nations rules and guidelines stipulating that they are not to have weapons of mass destruction, or are to be doing research or developing such weapons. Threatening the U.N. with irrelevency (Almost redundant), President Bush-43 has been making case and building up allies, or rather calling Britain, to force Iraq to allow U.N. inspectors back into the country, and to supply the U.N. with a complete report on their WMD capabilities.
The case was made and the inspectors returned and the WMD report was presented, 2 days ahead of a deadline, after an astonishing unanimous vote by the U.N. Security Council. The inspectors have only a few weeks before they file their report to the U.N. The report Iraq sumbitted, thousands upon thousands of pages, much of it in Arabic or on burned CD-ROMs (I didn't know Iraq even had copiers, let alone CD burners).
Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, North Korea has broken its proliferation agreement from 1994 and has begun to rebuild its nuculear program. It too has kicked out U.N. inspectors. North Korea's show of boldness is widely perceived as an attempt to blackmail the world into supplying it more aid to help its 22 million survive in a Communist nation where the budget is more military than it is anything else.
The announcement concerning North Korea has met with the U.S. strongly considering aggressive diplomacy with the aid of the U.N., Russia, China, Japan and South Korea. No military action is being considered. At this time.
It should also be noted that both Iraq and North Korea were linked in an "Axis of Evil" by President Bush-43, almost a year ago. The other member of the "Axis of Evil" is Iran.
In other news, Afghanistan's government, composed of bickering tribes and warlords, is being protected by a defense firm based out of Virgina. Osama bin Laden has not been captured, or killed. His wareabouts are unknown and seem to be of little interest at the current time.
So, in effort to distract the American people from a flagging economy and the fact that he has very little domestic agenda in the first place, President Bush-43 has, along with advisers, stumping heavily on the fact that Iraq is in violation of the U.N. guidelines (They did turn in the report 2 days earlier, it was single, not double-spaced, and was presented in Courier New when the resolution demanded Arial). So now, we go off the war.
The war with Iraq is not related to the war on terrorism in anyway. Iraq's only potential target would be Israel. And while they have, in the past, attacked other countries around them, with the globe watching it is doubtful such attacks will occur again. Iraq may very well be linked to al-Queda, but no evidence has been provided. It would seem, since the war on terrorism has been only half-done and is becoming frustrating to the world's greatest superpower, that finishing up Daddy's business is priority one for the Bush-43 administration.
The idea is to rebuild Iraq into a model for all other Middle Eastern countries to follow. And perhaps, since there's a large amount of oil there, the U.S. will be more interested in the rebuilding process than it was in Afghanistan. And it strikes this particular blogger and liberal as odd that the U.S. would want to build a brand new democracy in the Middle East when we have one that's struggling for its existence right now: Israel.
I'd further like to point out that it is unlikely that rebuilding Iraq would lead to it being much of a model for other countries, as the rulers of the nations surrounding it aren't overly interested in changing governmental gears. It won't be so much a model, as a warning shot across the bow.
I agree with the idea, and fact, that Iraq is harboring WMDs. I find it hard to believe it isn't. I believe it a threat, but not at the present time. The new Wilsonism has hit the gym and has also gotten a healthy dose of unilaterialism. It is unlikely that the U.S. will wait for a UNSC resolution that declares war on Iraq, thus making the U.N.'s authority, that it had been given previously, null and void.
I believe that war is terrorism, it causes terror, both here and abroad, and is, sadly, a necessary evil. I believe this war drumming with Iraq is a distraction to problems inside the country, a way to get re-elected (After all, where in the world is Osma bin Landen?), and a way to lower oil prices (which, hey, fossil fuels is a whole other story). I think that there are more pressing matters, such as the economy, Israel, and the war on terrorism that the government, and the American people should be focused on.
I encourage you to vist, read, and sign the petition that has the URL listed in the notes category just below the entry.
http://noattackiraq.org/
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