To all of you who are you saying that Saddam has broken every single wish of the UN deadline wise, he's evil because he just wants to stir up trouble, yada yada yada... that's the same exact thing the U.S. is doing.
I believe the US forced already one possible resoultion to the UN. That got shot down. Now we're pushing for a second one, and we still have stiff opposition. France is strictly against us, Germany is strictly against us, Russia is on the borderline - our only really powerful ally is England.
Almost nobody wants this war (except for us trigger-happy Americans, of course). Turkey has just denied us from using their country as a launching base. Many prominent celebrities are voicing their opinions against the war (just to name a few: Bono, George Michael, Sheryl Crow) - so much that the directors of the Grammy's threatened to kill the mics on any celebrities who began giving anti-war speeches.
Yeah, Saddam isn't cooperating with the UN, but as I see it, neither is the US. One of our resolutions got shot down in the UN. So what do we do? We use our raw brute strength as the last remaining superpower to push another one through.
Anyways, my point is this: to all of who said Saddam has defied the UN by missing every single deadline, take a look around. We're using out position to BULLY the UN.
We may be the last superpower, but guess what! Even WITH our obviously endless powers, a decade ago it took a coalition of THIRTY some-odd nations to beat an area about the size of Texas. Time are changing - you can't continue looking at this from the old imperialistic point of view. We're no longer powerful enough to take the world on by ourselves, and I think some people have to realize that.
To finish up, check out these links:
Gulf War 2 (aka World War 2.5)
US Spying on UN Security Council Delegates
Last (locked) CD Thread About Saddam
[edit]Forgot to add this quote... this floated around the interweb a few weeks back:
Quote:
"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war
in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor,
for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword.
It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind.
And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no
need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry,
infused with fear and blinded with patriotism, will offer up all of
their rights unto the leader, and gladly so.
How do I know?
For this is what I have done.
And I am Caesar."
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