tbh some shits gonna get blown up like it or not. gj.
War in Iraq on 17/3
Ford's quote pretty much expresses my feelings about the motivations of the Dubya's crew although there are some points there I find a bit far-fetched. I agree with the general idea that Saddam has to be forced to obey the UN with a war if necessary but the current situation stinks.
Dubya & co have said from the beginning that they will start the war no matter what the security council says and have thus put the council in a lose-lose situation. If it had started supporting US in the war the members would have appeared as Dubya's lackeys he can force to do whatever he wants. In the current situation they will appear undecisive and useless.
There have been twelve years of threats, inspectors, occasional cruise missiles, and retaliatory strikes on Saddam's anti-air attacks that at one point were so frequent that you could set a clock to them.
Saddam Hussein doesn't get the idea behind all this: Give it up, already.
Right now we have a massive amount of pressure focused on Saddam Hussein, and he's still not fully complying with 1441, which stipulated that he must comply or face serious consequences. This pressure can't go on forever. The media will bore of the endless stand-off, and governments will continue on to other things. That is the moment that Saddam Hussein is waiting for.
Thanks to the threat of war Saddam started co-operating slightly more willingly. Why not wait and give the diplomatic path a final chance? I agree that Iraq's current actions aren't enough but maybe they can be pressured to start co-operating properly now when they have seen how twitchy Dubya's trigger finger is. If this fails nothing has been lost and the UN security council will probably be more willing to take action specially if Dubya acts less arrogantly that time. I have yet to hear a single valid reason why the war had to be started in such a hurry. (Not counting those presented in Ford's quote, of course.)
The only thing that motivates Saddam is actual force; that is the only language that he listens to. Even if you fully disarm Iraq after God knows how many years, what's to say that he won't just start rebuilding when we've gone?
Who can guarantee that the new Iraqi government acts any more responsibly that the current one or someone like Saddam doesn't seize power after the foreign troops leave the country? If you think that you can build a stabile, democratic system there in a few months or even years you are more than a bit na?ve.
If Saddam can be disarmed peacefully (which I doubt but I think it is worth trying) thousands of lives are saved. If the facilities where Saddam produces the "illegal" weapons are made unusable he will have hard time to start producing them again. That is, if US, Britain, France & co don't change their minds and sell him these facilities (again).
