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I had this letter published prior to Gulf War 2:
‘I am as concerned as the next person about the prospect of Saddam Hussein having access to nuclear weapons. Unfortunately, I’m just as worried about the prospect of George W. Bush having access to nuclear weapons.’
I just don’t trust such dangerous weapons in the hands of such a trigger-happy idiot. Dubya Bush has now shown his willingness to use violence whenever he wants against thousands of Iraqis. Iraq was posing no threat to the US. Iraq had no WMDs. Iraq had no links to Sep 11, as Bush initially claimed. Given that, GW2 was a mistake. But hey, it’s only war, there’s always a next time.
I’m not saying it’s true, but I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that Sep 11 was another Pearl Harbour. Another attack that the Government let happen in order to garner support for the war effort. The US admin seem to have had an awful lot of info about the bin Ladens prior to the attacks. And then a few months down the track, Dubya said he wasn’t worried about bin Laden, didn’t give him a lot of thought, but boy that Hussein feller was looking worrying. How on Earth can Bush not be concerned about bin Laden after what he did?!?!
I don’t like Saddam, but it seemed to me that Powell’s presentation to the UN in favour of war on Iraq was so poor that only Bush 2 would have been stupid enough to be convinced by it. If you are going to take the drastic step of war, I’m sorry, but you do need to be pretty sure that it will be better to kill a few thousand people than let whatever thing continue. You don’t make up reasons later. You have to have reason before going to war. Next time Bush decides to go to war, and there will be a next time, he may not be able to find a reason after the fact for why the war turned out to be a sort of good idea. Americans, how will you feel about letting such a man run rampant with WMDs when he can't even find any good reason for having done so?
The Bush dynasty has long wanted to take Iraq, and they needed an excuse. How can the American people leave the world in the hands of a man prepared to go to any lengths to justify killing thousands of people? American, Iraqi and Australian families have been destroyed by this war.
The Bush campaign tried to get kudos from the Iraqi Olympic soccer team being able to compete. But as one of the team members themselves pointed out, what kind of freedom is it where he lives in fear for his life when he goes to the stadium for practice? What kind of freedom is it where he fears for his family’s life every day? What kind of freedom is it where he has lost friends to the violence? The Republicans have not brought peace to Iraq. They have gone in, told the Iraqis exactly how to run their country and who should be doing it, and in the process, they have stirred up more hatred and violence.
Removing Saddam was a good thing. But you have to do it the right way. As the Baghdad blogger Salam Pax said, you have to act more like a referee and help the Iraqis. Instead, Bush’s methods have left many Iraqis with a lot of resentment towards the American Nation. It can’t be good for the Americans to have so many people who now want to wreak revenge upon America! Surely, that was what the problem was in the first place: the US foreign policy had exacerbated the rest of the world’s anger towards America, and people like bin Laden have taken out their anger in extreme and horrific ways.
The best way to be tough on terror is to not engage in foreign policy that makes everyone angry. I’m not saying that terrorists are completely rational beings, but they aren’t just pissed off for no reason. And now they are pissed off at the American soldiers occupying Iraq. And they will take their anger out on those soldiers, and probably eventually mount another attack on America.
The effects of this war will be felt all over the world for a long time to come. Please America, don’t let it happen again in another country.