Originally posted by Raskolnikov
What 'other peaceful way?' Sanctions have failed for twelve consecutive years. Limited air strikes have failed, diplomacy has failed. What other peaceful method of resolution is left here? We're prolonging the inevitable while allowing more innocent Iraqis to starve and Saddam more and more time to prepare for an attack - very effectively lengthening any action that will have to be taken agaisnt him.
A sloppily executed war will invaribly lead to more trouble, but look at US military doctrine: precision strikes against military targets, minimize civilian casualties, treat POWs well, encourage disloyalty in the enemy's ranks...
This won't be sloppy.
Why didn't they remove Saddam in the war a decade ago ? Back then the U.S. could have insisted on removing that Bastard (Saddam) , since he has been a real threat to everyone... But they didn't simply bec they wanted to keep more & more U.S. military bases in the region (for domination for sure) , and removing him would have solved the problem easily ... And perhaps most of the credits would have gone to the UN instead too.
Now they're pretty sure their military bases in the region are permenant , they just want to increase their domination over the region by taking over such a big country that's swimming in oil like Iraq ... And all the excuses the U.S. are claiming for this war are bullsh*t .
First they tried to link Saddam to Bin Laden & other extreme groups , then claims about Iraq developing Nukes & other weapons of mass-destruction which threatens the whole world ... Now after all the excuses proved to be a complete faliur , they just say Saddam should go off Iraq or else we'll strike ... Everybody knows that a guy like Saddam would never accept such a deal , so what's the point ? The U.S. seems very determined to strike whatever it takes , right?
Other peacefull suggestions might be having the UN pushing Iraq to make some political corrections , democratic elections , trying to help the people by sending food not helping the regiem by sending money.
By the way , there are a plenty of other countries that deserve more punishment than Iraq (nowadays) , but probably these countries will never get striked till they find oil in their lands , and move to the Middle East !
