Monday, February 03, 2003

Can someone please explain to me why this country seems to think that deposing a violent, egomaniacal, warmongering, empire-building dictator who rules by lies, deceit, and violence and is publically encouraging acts of aggression against our country is the wrong thing to do?  The people in Iraq don't want him there, the people in the Middle East don't want him there.  The chief argument against this war is it is a war over oil, and it seems nice to be able to lay this down as a U.S. capitalistic plot to control foreign oil reserves, but it misses the point that this is a very bad man.  And yes, there are other bad men out there in leadership positions, and yes, we may not be fighting them because they have no oil, but it seems silly to me to say that is a reason we shouldn't fight this one.

I just don't understand the anti-war sentiment from any other context other than "war is bad."  And the idea that no war is worth fighting is, I think, shortsighted and naive at best.  Yes, I agree we should not go into war lightly, but let's not kid ourselves into thinking people like Adolf Hitler, Moammar Khadafi, or Osama bin Laden understand anything but violent response.  I also think that Saddam fits into that category.


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