> > http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/20/international/worldspecial/2 > 0WEAP.html?pagewanted=1&th > > "To my mind, the most telling and eye-catching point in the > judgment of five of the six intelligence agencies was that if > left unchecked, Iraq would most likely have a nuclear weapon in > this decade. The president of the United States could not afford > to trust Saddam's motives or give him the benefit of the doubt," > she said. ("she" being C. Rice.)
John Horn replied:
This is the one argument that got me and convinced me to support the war
against Iraq. I figured, if everything else wasn't true, at least this was.
And now it appears that everything else probably wasn't true! <grin>
Seriously, why couldn't this have been the main argument, not the handwaving
about existing WMD that don't exist??
As far as I'm concerned, the war was justified for Saddam's crimes against humanity, no mention of WMD needed. There was the ethnic cleansing of the so-called Marsh Arabs (not to mention the destruction of 95% of the marsh ecosystem in southern Iraq), gassing of Kurd towns, women being raped while their husbands are forced to watch, men being killed in plastic shredders...
Most of this is covered in this article by British Labour MP Ann Clwyd, which I think Guatam originally posted to the list.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3284-614607,00.html
Excerpt:
All these crimes have been recorded in detail by the UN, the US, Kuwaiti, British,
Iranian and other Governments and groups such as Human Rights Watch, Amnesty
and Indict. Yet the Security Council has failed to set up a war crimes tribunal on
Iraq because of opposition from France, China and Russia. As a result, no Iraqi official
has ever been indicted for some of the worst crimes of the 20th century.
I'm not a fan of Bush, and I generally don't trust either him or his motives, and I *especially* don't trust his Attorney General (I'm from the state that voted for a dead person for Senate rather than vote for Ashcroft). But removal of SH's regime from power was absolutely necessary and justified. If you want to attack the Bush administration, there are plenty of reasons that don't involve this war.
Reggie Bautista
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