I'm going to make my views clear on the upcoming and I feel immenent war with Iraq.
I support military action fully. I support using the strongest and most effective weapons possible. If we must kill civilians to achieve our goal then we must do it. It is our job to protect our interests above all else, including those of civilians in an enemy country.
Now let me explain my views a bit.
Saddam Hussien is a madman. He has repeatedly proven to be irrational in his decisions. He has used chemical weapons against his own people and against his neighbors. This alone is justification. He has used these weapons not in self-defense, which is the only permissable use of them in order to quickly end a conflict in which you are answering force with force. He has repeatedly threatened the United States and it's Allies. That is justification. By all proper standards, that is rational standards, we are justified in removing him from power with force. He has repeatedly demostrated that force is his choice of means for dealing with other nations and people. We are not stooping down to his level. The only way to answer force is with force. No amount of talking or cajoling will save the life of a man being held at gunpoint. We are dealing with him by the method of his chosing, not ours, and we will answer with strength. The United Nations and the rest of the world are irrelevant to this matter. He is a threat to the life of rational and productive men in this country and all countries and must be stopped.
As for our right and indeed moral obligation, that is obvious. Since the birth of this country it has been the United States that has dragged the rest of the world out of their hovels. We have given them the means to live a life a hundred fold more enjoyable and productive than what they could have achieved without us. The thing that gave us this ability was our moral code. Without the sureness of self and the ability to acknowledge reality none of the splendor you live in would have been possible. To quote John Galt, "Ours is the Morality of Life, What then is yours?" After all of the gifts we have shared with them we are denounced as tyrants who seek to hold people down. We, who have allowed people to rise to hights unimaginable to them, are the oppressors. And now we are staring down the barrel of a gun that we taught them how to make. They scream in essence, "How dare you demand that we live a rational life, you who have given us the ability to live?" "By what right do you claim you are better than us, you who have created the splendor that we now hoard?" We do it by the right of reality. In order to create the abundance that this country has produced in such a short time; man, all of man, must be allowed to live in freedom as is proper to him. Anywhere freedom is threatened, we are threatened. Whether it be a lone man robbing a bank or a dispotic dictator with weapons capable of ending the lives of millions at his irrational whim, it is either our way of life or his. And be certain, that ours is the way of life. We are denounced as immoral, we who taught the world what it is to be moral. Now we must make our stand and declare to the world that we are right, by the facts of reality and because ours is the Morality of Life.
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