Originally posted by SLY
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No body wants Saddam to stay in power , everybody knows how bad is he (to his own people more than anybody else) ...

But having only one or two major countries removing him by military power isn't a good idea bec of the following:
1- Innocent people will suffer , others will die.
2- In case of total invasion , Saddam might use the weapons he is claimed to have (if he still have any).
3- The world's economy isn't in good shape to take the consequences of starting such a war ... A lot of countries (specialy in the middle east) will suffer economicaly from such a war.
4- Increasing the number of people who hate the U.S. for it's imperialist policies , so you'll have to deal with new Bin Ladens (not specificaly islamic) that such war would creat.

1). Innocent people in Iraq are suffering NOW
2). He plans on using them anyway
3). The world economy is very much linked to the US economy, isn't this war supposed to be about boosting the US economy, and if so shouldn't the world economy be boosted with it? (Such accusations of course always seem to omit the fact that war time economic boosts are invariably followed by economic depressions, then again that would destroy their agrument, wouldn't it?)
4). You say that like a significant ammount of people in this world like Saddam Hussein.

Originally posted by SLY
[QUOTE]There must be other solutions that are more peacefull than war ...
With the UN inspectors in Iraq , there is no fear that Saddam would develope mass-destruction weapons...
So the UN can force Iraq to pay from oil funds to establish aiding UN organization inside Iraq to help civilians .
Also they can force Saddam's regiem to make political corrections, that will lead to his removal (with no bloodshed) someday.

First off, inspections have failed. The Iraqi people are by no means stupid, their weapons scientists are very good at hiding installations and creating dual use facilities. Virtually every escaped Iraqi weapons scientist has said that Saddam has no intention of putting his WMD programs to rest and that his installations are so well hidden that they will only be found by accident -- if at all. The weapons inspections in place today are a joke. They're both a ploy by the Bush Administration to garner international support, and a ploy by the governments opposed to war in Iraq to buy some time to stop the war. If they by some means actually manage to do anything to end Iraq's WMD programs, it will be purely accidental. Saddam has had FOUR YEARS with no inspections of any kind to see to that.*

Second, how are we supposed to force Saddam to do anything? There are sanctions in place today designed to force him disarm and reform that have accomplished neither objective over the past decade, but have very effectively starved his people. How can we possibly force him to do anything without putting troops on the ground in Iraq? He obviously doesn't care that his people are suffering, otherwise he'd have put this behind all of us ten years ago. I'd really love to hear any ideas you might have on how to make Saddam do anything he doesn't wish to do that doesn't involve actual force of arms.


*Interesting side note: The air strikes President Clinton launched after Saddam expelled UN weapons inspectors from Iraq four years ago revealed a hanger with a few small unmanned aircraft on a military base apparantly designed to spread biological or chemical agents across troop formations. This hanger was hit accidently when a missle or bomb aimed at a known weapons facillity missed its intended target; the weapons inspectors had never known that the hanger or the aircraft existed.