What Was The Point?
The excuse that the Administration had given for a preemptive strike on Iraq -- without further delaying by those pesky UN weapons inspectors and in the face of overwhelming global opposition -- was that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and posed a clear and immediate danger to us. Now that we have taken over the entire country, we can't seem to find any such WMD's. What's worse, the administration is not allowing those UN weapons inspectors to return to Iraq to look for WMD's and it is wholly unconcerned about the potential dangers of looting at Iraqi nuclear sites.
I am at a loss as to what we have accomplished by going to this war, other than inflicting immeasurable damage to our prestige and credibility in the international community, driving way the allies that provided crucial support for our "War on Terror", killing thousands of innocent civilians, and providing ideological ammo to radical fundamentalists for generations to come.
Sure, we freed a whole nation from a brutal ruthless tyrant (never mind that resentment towards us has been festering in the now "free" Iraq, where people are too scared to leave their homes because of armed thugs roaming the streets in plain view of American soldiers), but didn't we go to this war in the name of protecting US? All the pollsters want to know whether Americans are concerned about finding WMD's in Iraq now that the war is over. Why don't they ask the real fucking question? "Do you feel any safer as an American now that Saddam Hussein is gone?" I for one do not and I am positive that Americans here and abroad will agree with me.
Before all this happened, the world grieved with us for the catastrophic loses we suffered on September 11. I don't believe they will be so sympathetic the next time tragedy strikes and I don't blame them. We have only ourselves to blame.
The excuse that the Administration had given for a preemptive strike on Iraq -- without further delaying by those pesky UN weapons inspectors and in the face of overwhelming global opposition -- was that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and posed a clear and immediate danger to us. Now that we have taken over the entire country, we can't seem to find any such WMD's. What's worse, the administration is not allowing those UN weapons inspectors to return to Iraq to look for WMD's and it is wholly unconcerned about the potential dangers of looting at Iraqi nuclear sites.
I am at a loss as to what we have accomplished by going to this war, other than inflicting immeasurable damage to our prestige and credibility in the international community, driving way the allies that provided crucial support for our "War on Terror", killing thousands of innocent civilians, and providing ideological ammo to radical fundamentalists for generations to come.
Sure, we freed a whole nation from a brutal ruthless tyrant (never mind that resentment towards us has been festering in the now "free" Iraq, where people are too scared to leave their homes because of armed thugs roaming the streets in plain view of American soldiers), but didn't we go to this war in the name of protecting US? All the pollsters want to know whether Americans are concerned about finding WMD's in Iraq now that the war is over. Why don't they ask the real fucking question? "Do you feel any safer as an American now that Saddam Hussein is gone?" I for one do not and I am positive that Americans here and abroad will agree with me.
Before all this happened, the world grieved with us for the catastrophic loses we suffered on September 11. I don't believe they will be so sympathetic the next time tragedy strikes and I don't blame them. We have only ourselves to blame.
posted by Gary at
9:37 AM
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