Do I support the war?
Mar. 28th, 2003 03:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sombrefanVery reluctantly, it must be said. I don't like the present administration of the United States of America and when it comes to watching Bush and Blair talking about the Iraq war, I vastly prefer Blair (who I voted for back in '97).
Is there a hidden agenda behind the war? Very probably yes. But that can be dealt with afterwards. The neo-conservatives in Washington D.C. are losing crediblity because they misread the Iraqi people.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2003/03/28/cakewalk/index.html
But the important thing at the minute is the removal of Saddam and his regime.
As you can see from the Amnesty International reports on Iraq, his regime has carried out horrendous human rights abuses.
http://web.amnesty.org/library/eng-irq/reports
So what about post-war Iraq?
An American run post-war effort or will it be controlled by the United Nations? Now France and Russia have their own vested interests in Iraq, I never accepted their moral arguments against war. They're concerned about money and protecting their companies who deal with Iraq. The United States government has no faith in the UN. The Onion recently satirised the US government by saying that it will form its own United Nations.
http://www.theonion.com/onion3911/us_forms_own_un.html
I doubt the rest of the world including the United States's staunch ally Great Britain will accept that the Americans should run the show after the war. But very likely the American government will ignore these views and do what it chooses to see fit.
The long-term question is, is it in the interests of the American people (and lets not forget the British people) to overthrow the present Iraqi regime? And the reason that I ask this, is that history has taught us people have very long memories. Living in Northern Ireland has taught me that.
Is there a hidden agenda behind the war? Very probably yes. But that can be dealt with afterwards. The neo-conservatives in Washington D.C. are losing crediblity because they misread the Iraqi people.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2003/03/28/cakewalk/index.html
But the important thing at the minute is the removal of Saddam and his regime.
As you can see from the Amnesty International reports on Iraq, his regime has carried out horrendous human rights abuses.
http://web.amnesty.org/library/eng-irq/reports
So what about post-war Iraq?
An American run post-war effort or will it be controlled by the United Nations? Now France and Russia have their own vested interests in Iraq, I never accepted their moral arguments against war. They're concerned about money and protecting their companies who deal with Iraq. The United States government has no faith in the UN. The Onion recently satirised the US government by saying that it will form its own United Nations.
http://www.theonion.com/onion3911/us_forms_own_un.html
I doubt the rest of the world including the United States's staunch ally Great Britain will accept that the Americans should run the show after the war. But very likely the American government will ignore these views and do what it chooses to see fit.
The long-term question is, is it in the interests of the American people (and lets not forget the British people) to overthrow the present Iraqi regime? And the reason that I ask this, is that history has taught us people have very long memories. Living in Northern Ireland has taught me that.
