Iraq Attack (2)

I don't see how this translates into cause for incinerating children, which you euphamestically call "war."


The article says that Iraq was once only a few years from making a bomb, but "its primary facilities were destroyed" 12 years ago, and the project was "further hindered by the arrival of U.N. inspectors after the war."


The only claim that would spark even concern in the article is that Saddam "ordered his scientists two years ago to resume work" on the nuclear program, which Iraq has more recently offered to negotiate by allowing the inspectors back in.


So Saddam's nuclear facilities have been destroyed, haven't been rebuilt, he would like to have a bomb and wants his scientists to "work" on building one, but there's no prediction of one in sight, and he's offered to negotiate away his mass destruction program in any event.


"Jihad" against Israel? I thought the media stopped promoting the phony translation of this word into "holy war" years ago (it means "struggle," and applies in many different non-violent contexts). As for his calls for jihad against Israel, I understand that pronouncements like these are daily occurrences in the Arab world, just like U.S. officials daily demand a war against Iraq. Except that if history is any guide, the threat from the U.S. should be taken much more seriously.


Some compelling argument for killing the innocent. I agree that everyone should read it, and come to their own conclusions about the reluctance of Iraq war-hawks to support mass terror and destruction.

If Saddam ordered his scientists two years ago (according to the article) to resume work on his nuclear weapons program, and the article is 2 years old, he's been working at rebuilding them for 4 years it would seem.


Maybe if we give him another couple years he can get the job done, and then he can get Israel done. Or whatever else he would like to do with nukes on top of the chemical and biological weapons he already has.


Maybe we should just wait and trust he won't use these weapons to bully his neighbors. Maybe we should just hope these weapons don't find their way into the hands of terrorists who would attack the USA with them.


Maybe Saddam is really a man of peace after all.

and maybe he won't stall the inspectors, give them the runaround, secretly move his laboratories around, or kick the inspectors out again when they get to be too much of an interference.


Maybe all we need is a legal agreement in writing with Saddam, and a gentleman's handshake. Maybe that will surprise us this time and it will actually work.


Maybe we will wake up tomorrow and realize that everybody is happy, everybody is kind, and all this was just a bad dream.

To say that the relentless suicide bombing attacks now going on in Israel are anything less than a Holy War is sheer nonsense.


The agenda that you have proposed clearly indicates that you will not be satisfied until Israel is destroyed.


I bet that you secretly celebrated on 9-11-01.

"Have any of his neighbors endorsed the proposed war against Iraq? No neighbor country, including Kuwait, has suffered at the hands of Saddam more than Iran, and it's leaders bitterly denounced the proposed U.S. war just last week. "


We don't get along with Iran. They will denounce anything we do except mabye a civil war.


"How do you know that, a crystal ball? If it was true, why didn't he load the scud missiles that he used to bomb Israel with poison gas? "


Israel warned Iraq that if they used chemical or biological weapons against them they would retaliate with all available means including nuclear weapons. There was no reason to think they were not 100% serious. Saddam is not averse to using chemical weapons, he just understood the risk/reward ratio was not close to favorable in that case.