From: Steve Peterson (peterson.steve@verizon.net)
Date: Sat Mar 15 2003 - 20:41:05 GMT
Hi Andy,
>I said: One can't be pro-UN inspections and be anti-use of force on
> Iraq. They are contradictory positions.
>
> Andy: I assure you they are not contradictory positions. The inspections
> have worked since the beginning.
Steve:
I don't know what you mean by "the beginning."
>...where is everybody's memory?
Perhaps you've forgotten. Inspectors had not been in Iraq for 5 years.
Why is it that they were let back in? Answer: Bush threatened war.
Without such a credible threat, there are no inspections.
I am not a big supporter of war on Iraq. I have mixed feelings. But I am
confident that "peace people" rallying around the inspections are missing
the connection between the inspections and a credible threat of war. You
don't get inspections without Saddam believing that we really will take him
out if he doesn't comply.
> So, conspiracy, I am sure you are now muttering to yourself. Andy, come
> back to the real world. Well, I have no proof to offer you other than my
> own observations. It all seems too obvious to me. Although, I have never
> been able to rule out the possibility that I am insane. So, you are free
> to think that.
How's this for a conspiracy. Iraq becomes democratic and flourishes. Iran
and other neighboring governments are influenced. Their populations
pressure them for more freedom. The Israel-Palestine problem is solved
through a wave of democracy spreading throughout the Middle East. The
Temple in Jerusalem is rebuilt precipitating the second coming.
I think that is Bush's theory. Yeah, it's crazy. I think he thinks about
such things as well as oil. I hope the democracy part works, anyway.
As far as the war being motivated by economics, anti-war folks seem to want
it both ways. On the one hand they'll tell you we are doing it for cheap
oil. On the other they'll tell you how our economy will suffer because of
the costs of the war and a subsequent occupation (which is what I think).
Would a war be good or bad for our economy? Are we really acting in our own
best interests? I hope so, but I fear that we are not. Without UN support,
American taxpayers will carry a heavy burden.
Regards,
Steve
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