Before everyone starts sending hate-mail to The Scribe, I state I do support the troops; however I don’t support the war. And for those that will forward a copy of this to the FBI, I refer you to the first amendment. I have heard many times how necessary this war is, but I don’t believe half the people reading this article now know why. Is it because Iraq is on the Axis of Evil, which actually should be renamed the six Point Star of Evil, or because Sadaam Hussein is “an evil, evil man” (quoting George Bush), or because Iraq has violated the UN agreement drawn up after the Gulf War? Only George Bush knows, and I don’t even think he does.
There’s no mistaking, Sadaam has committed terrible atrocities against his people. However, it was the United States which helped him retain power during the Iran/Iraq war of the 1980’s by supplying him with the very same weapons of mass destruction we are now asking for. These atrocities didn’t seem to bother anyone until someone noticed that Sadaam looked strangely like those Arab people we hate so much, that is unless they are supplying us with oil. And an axis of evil, based on the fact some countries have nuclear weapons, and aren’t our friends. Come On! So we can have 200 nuclear weapons and they can’t try to develop one, I say who is being an “evil, evil,” unfair man now? As for the UN agreement, Israel violates UN agreements consistently, and America has managed to turn a blind eye to them for nearly forty years, and Sadaam can’t get 30 more days.
George Bush has discredited the UN, not that it was the strongest institution to begin with, by not taking the second resolution, affirming the use of force to vote at all, for fear of it being rejected (and for all those calling your fries “freedom fries” please stop because France wasn’t the only country in the security council opposed to the war, and besides, it’s just ridiculous). He has turned a deaf ear to the millions of people who protested abroad, and the masses that protested here. Two percent, the percentage difference between those that supported the war and those that didn’t, isn’t enough in my book to send America’s young men and women to die, but thank goodness it is Bush’s book and not mine.
It is my personal feeling this war has more to do with oil, the fact there was a hit Sadaam placed on Bush Sr., and an economy so bad Monica Lewinsky can’t get a job sucking lollipops. It is aimed at those who think racial profiling Muslims is acceptable, because by gosh they must all be capable of making shoe bombs, and sending anthrax via USPS.
I believe in the rights the US is supposed to bestow us, but I also believe that a nation that’s a superpower should be able to handle the responsibility that comes along with it, without “breaking out the bombs.” It is in our direction that countries look for integrity, freedom and liberty; and when we look at our own reflection we should see a nation promoting peace, discussion, and one that resorts to war as a last option and not a first. Who has ever heard of a pre-emptive war?
If The Scribe prints my editorial next week, it will contain all the reasons why American’s should invest in satellite television, or not watch television like Bush at all. I ask who starts a war and doesn’t watch it?