Tuesday 18 March 2003

This rotten 'War' My cousin in Richmond Virginia thinks Dubyoo is 'decisive', whereas Bill Clinton, though liked in Ireland because of his tireless efforts towards arriving at an agreement which bridged a desperately wide gap, was perceived in the US as ineffectual and indulging in 'bad things'. (So how come he was elected for a second term?) Anyway, we had a disagreement on the phone today. She failed to see how terrible the actions of her President are, and perceived the UN situation as proof of the need for the US to 'go get Saddam'.       This perception gulf is disturbing. Seen from my perspective there is absolutely no justification for this preemptive 'war'. Saddam poses no immediate threat to the US or anyone else, but nonetheless he has been singled out for attack -- an attack which is being launched because he is supposedly guilty of not 'disarming' sufficiently. So the logic here is that he isn't weak enough, so we're going to attack him? This is the most ridiculous reasoning imaginable. And yet the international media swallows the official line hook line and sinker, bandies stock phrases such as 'axis of evil'. 'weapons of mass destruction' and so on without questiion, and we are all sucked in to a conflict which no-one wants and which is totally unjustified.       Not actually on the RSS feeds, but significant nonetheless, this article on the BBC site neatly sums up the situation. The first paragpraph is hugely signifcant: 'The United States says American forces will enter Iraq to search for weapons of mass destruction even if President Saddam Hussein complies with an ultimatum to leave.' What more can anyone say in response to this? 11:07:42 PM  Your view

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