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Well the news lately is that the Bush and Blair Administrations are going to introduce the latest resolution to the UN in an attempt to gather yet even more support for the war on Iraq. This despite the fact that the UN has pretty much shown it is completely worthless. It is not in danger of becoming the League of Nations. It IS the League of Nations. The UN couldn’t break up a cookie fight at a brownie meeting.

What really irritates me though is that I keep seeing all these anti-war protesters coming up with the same tired bullshit for their reasons of opposition to the war. And they are pretty much all the same…and they are also all completely bullshit.

Peace should always be given the moral benefit of the doubt over war
Most vocal about this is probably France’s Chirac who stated “war is always failure”. Well looking at Frances military track record I don’t think I can argue that this isn’t true for France. But let’s consider the rest of the world, shall we?

Look nobody in their right mind hopes for war, or is opposed to peace. But at what cost does this peace come? Who decides what that peace consists of? And for how long will that peace last?

Sometimes war is the only way to obtain peace. Hitlers invasion of Europe is a perfect example. If we had simple appeased him, the Nazis would still be ruling over much of Europe. And in the current case, can you honestly say that the Iraqis currently have peace? The civilians suffer and die on a daily basis at the hands of an extremely cruel regime. You call that peace?

There is no justification for a pre-emptive war
Ok first of all this is not a pre-emptive war. At the end of the first Gulf War no peace treaty was ever signed. A truce was granted on the condition that Iraq immediately disarm itself of all weapons of mass destruction. Since this condition has not been met after 12 YEARS, we can consider the truce null and void.

Also the one lesson that we should have learned from 9/11 is that it’s no longer always ok to wait until the threat has become reality. We knew Al Qaeda was planning a major attack, we knew the communications picked up, we should have taken out Al Qaeda BEFORE 9/11, not after. Do we have to wait until Iraq kills a couple thousand Americans before we strike? We know the threat is there, let’s deal with it.

Iraq isn’t a threat
Ok this is ridiculous. Ok perhaps they don’t have missiles that can reach us and perhaps they can’t invade us. I’ll grant you that. But they still remain a very real and very dangerous threat.

They have chemical and biological weapons and have shown the willingness to use them on civilians. They have been researching various means of delivering them including the use of unmanned aircraft. All it would take is for a single individual to smuggle it into the country and set it off in say Times Square or an airport or something like that. Suddenly we have a whole new 9/11 on our hands.

Also Iraq has shown it’s willingness and publicly admits to funding terrorists. If Iraq can’t find a way to smuggle such weapons into America, the terrorist group definitely will.

The inspections have contained Saddam
Yes they may have done that, although I have very real doubts about that. But even if they have succeeded in containing Saddam, he is still there and he still has weapons of mass destruction.

Saddam has shown he has no intention on complying with the inspectors. Do you plan on having eternal inspections? And eternal inspections would imply eternal sanctions. Can you honestly say you plan to continue inspections forever??

And inspections are not meant to contain. The inspections are there to merely verify Iraqs claims that it has disarmed. As yet Iraq has produced zero proof to that effect. Everything submitted to the inspectors so far has been found to be an elaborate web of lies and misleading half-truths.

Inspections are working
No they are not. The inspectors haven’t really found anything, yet nobody can deny, not even the French, that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction. Iraq has had 12 years to practice hiding weapons and misleading inspectors. Even the inspectors both current and former admit that the Iraqis have gotten very good at it.

You can’t expect a bunch of inspectors to be able to find weapons buried in a huge desert, or roaming the country on the back of a truck or hidden underneath buildings. And Saddam has done all the above. And he repeatedly moves them around in order to stay one step ahead. The UN reconnaissance is absolutely pointless considering that Iraq demands a copy of essentially the entire flight plan 48 hours in advance.

And what the inspectors have found, Iraq refuses to destroy. So not only are the inspections producing very little, if anything at all, but what they do produce Iraq refuses to destroy.

We don’t have worldwide support
Even if this were true, so what? Most people in the world want us to be as miserable as they are. It’s a sad fact of human nature, but most people don’t look at success and try to emulate it. Besides, we know it’s the right thing to do. To bring peace and democracy to this country should not need an international mandate. It should simply be expected of this worlds lone superpower.

However, the notion that we don’t have worldwide support is completely false. A majority of the worlds democracies support us. Our closest allies support us. We have offerings of support from the world around us. Every Iraqi exile I’ve heard from has supported this. If I were to count the number of countries that support us on my fingers, I’d need quite a few more hands.

Ok so a few million people (I’m being generous in my figures here) protested the upcoming war against Iraq. You know what that means?? Approximately 6 BILLION people either support the war, or are indifferent to the war. Keep that in mind. And I think it’s funny to note that some of the celebrities claiming they are so “anti-war” actually entertained our troops in Bosnia, Afghanistan, etc. Hypocrites…

It’s all about oil
Ok this is something I hear people say alot. Admittedly it’s usually people who just heard it someplace and repeat it without actually thinking about it. If you examine it this is completely baseless.

I assume most of the time they are implying that since the Bush family is involved in the oil industry that Bush is doing this because he’d make money off it. First of all, Bush probably makes more money by NOT having more Iraqi oil on the market. Remember supply and demand determines price. Less Supply, Same Demand, equals Higher Prices. And besides, if Bush really wanted access to all that Iraqi oil the easiest way to do it would be to simply drop the sanctions and let the Iraqi oil flow unrestricted onto the market.

Also, the phrase “spoils of war” is an outdated premise. It doesn’t work that way anymore. We’re not going to occupy any oil fields, we’re not going to turn the country into a colony. We didn’t do it the first time, we didn’t do it in Afghanistan, we haven’t done that since…well, I forget but I’m pretty sure the Alamo was involved.

Once the war is over the only reason we’ll still be there is because we’re responsible for rebuilding the country. A rather expensive, difficult and tedious responsibility we inherit by invading. We wouldn’t be occupying the country, the world would never allow that.

And if history is any example (which it frequently is), the best thing that can happen to a country is that it gets invaded by the United States. I’ll cite Germany, Japan, Kuwait, Afghanistan and South Korea as the best examples of that. There was even a half-serious joke that existed after WWII about a small poor country that would declare war on the US so that it could get invaded, surrender and that sit back and wait for the foreign aid to roll in.

We shouldn’t rush into this
Rush?? Who’s rushing?? I’ve seen plants grow faster than this. Let’s examine this “rush to war”. The last Gulf War ended 12 years ago. We let inspections go on for years before Iraq kicked the inspectors out. Then we decided to get serious. Everyone said, go to Congress, Bush did that. Then they said talk to the UN, so he did that and got Resolution 1441. Give inspections a chance, so we’ve done that. Get a second resolution, ok we’re doing that.

Saddam was told nearly four months ago by a unanimous U.N. Security Council that he had to disarm immediately and completely. He still hasn’t. I can’t think of any recent war that tried so hard for so long to give peace a chance. This isn’t so much a “rush to war”, it’s an endless, painstaking, nail-biting crawl.

And just for comparison I’d like to point out that American troops were landing in Sicily, 18 months after Pearl Harbor. At this rate we may land troops in Baghdad 18 years after the failed truce.

Oh goodie, the jackass also known as Farrakhan speaks again. He is ill from a bladder infection and therefore he claims he will need to keep the speech short. Yet somehow how he screams, chants and pounds his podium all the way through his three hour speech. So much for keeping it short.

Unfortunately, his speeches are still as illogical and crazed as always. It always hurts to try to follow his asinine pattern of thought. For your enjoyment I’ll highlight some of the better parts of his speech.

“When they come, they will come under the guise of Homeland Security,” Farrakhan said. “They’ll take our property and freeze our assets.”

Considering you’ve been linked to terrorist states and your speeches border on inciting violence I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the Department of Homeland Security paid you a visit.

He not only chastised the United States, but pounced on Israeli leaders, saying they are not following the true teaching of Judaism by what they are doing to the Palestinians.

Considering he didn’t criticize the Palestians at all can I assume that their suicide tactics follow the true teaching of Islam and that he approves of them? Amazing how only one side is allowed to kill the other.

He told the crowd that white ministers selected among the “most brilliant” blacks to become ministers, but told them what to preach.

“The preachers have always been apologetic for the evils of the white people,” the 69-year-old Farrakhan said.

He did praise a few black ministers, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Democratic presidential hopeful the Rev. Al Sharpton, of whom he said, “He will never sell you out.”

Ok so I gather that Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton were not selected by this huge Caucasian conspiracy you speak of?? Now this is odd, considering they are the only ministers I’ve ever heard speak out on anything. I imagine most other ministers do what they are supposed to and are too busy…well, preaching…to lecture us about anything.

“Christians used Jesus to sanctify white supremacy,” Farrakhan said. “I want to say to President Bush that you are a radical who has hijacked Christianity.”

Farrakhan also warned the audience that once the war breaks out, the government could come after African Americans. He said white leaders were angry at blacks for introducing them to hip-hop.

“The anger of white people is growing,” he said. “You are taking their children with the hip-hop generation.”

Oh boy, where do I even start with this one. Um, so let me get this straight. President Bush has hijacked Christianity to exact revenge on African Americans for introducing the world to hip-hop. Wow.

Hmm, I don’t suppose any US Presidents hijacked Christianity to punish African-Americans for Jazz too??? Although I suppose that would be fairly difficult considering the President isn’t the head of Christianity.

But yes, I can honestly say I feel deep and personal hatred for those dangerous animals that brought on the hip-hop culture. Ok I almost typed that with a straight face. I’m not even sure where to begin ridiculing this. And the scary part is he sounds and speaks like he actually believes what he’s saying! Sheer lunacy at it’s best (or worst). And just imagine, this guy leads an entire group of people in our country.