Iraq and the war on terror

First, read the article in the link above for a really good summing up of exactly what has been achieved in this "war on terror" being waged these past two years. Perhaps the Americans are calling it a success because all the deaths happened outside of the USA... and for the most part don't involve Americans. So, that makes it distant and not... real??





Some recent quotes:



John Bolton, US Under-Secretary of State for arms control: whether Saddam Hussein's regime actually possessed WMD "isn't really the issue".

...the issue was not weapons, or actual programmes, but "the capability that Iraq sought to have ... WMD programmes". Saddam, he claimed, kept "a coterie" of scientists he was preserving for the day when he could build nuclear weapons unhindered by international constraints. "Whether he possessed them today or four years ago isn't really the issue," he said. "As long as that regime was in power, it was determined to get nuclear, chemical and biological weapons one way or another. Until that regime was removed from power, that threat remained - that was the purpose of the military action."





Mr Blair at his Downing Street press conference last week: "Let me say why I still believe Iraq was the right thing to do and why it is essential that we see it through. If we succeed in putting Iraq on its feet as a stable, prosperous and democratic country, then what a huge advertisement that is for the values of democracy and human rights, and what a huge defeat it is for these terrorists who want to establish extremist states."





So, the current spin is not even that Iraq had a "weapons program", since the 1,400-strong American Iraq Survey Group (led by pro-Bush David Kay) is expected to report this week that it found no WMD hardware, or any sign of active programmes. All they can say is that Iraq had scientists with the necessary knowledge to develop such weapons. Blair's argument is that the regime was bad so it had to be changed. This is the worst argument for pre-emptive war there is, and a rabidly dangerous one.



In that case, any modern nation on earth can be a target, especially if it disagrees with the US or UK.





Why are not more people speaking up??

Why dont I see resignations in the various countries??

Where is the public outcry??

Where is the press??



This is so, SO immoral and (in American terminology) just plain wrong!