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from terror-alert.com |
from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security |
Even our allies must have at least considered this question in their think tanks. For example, how could the U.K. prevail should they find themselves opposed to us in some future conflict? Technically, this war is in violation of international law and Bush is a war criminal, although the chances of this being pursed are minute. The U.S.-led invasion of Iraq violates the basic rules of the United Nations Charter requiring countries to exhaust all peaceful means of maintaining global security before taking military action, and permitting the use of force in self-defense only in response to actual or imminent attack. In 12 years since the 1st Gulf War Saddam has not attacked the US homeland with weapons of mass destruction. So how could anyone claim an attack by Iraqi made WMD is imminent? If we do find that Saddam has a large stash of WMD, we'll never know that we got them all. If a tank of nerve gas is buried in the desert, how will we find it? Perhaps some Iraqi teen that is orphaned by the war will come to the US in a few years and release that gas in a US city. Suppose that we had reasons to believe that Saddam had the means to have made 1,000 liters of anthrax. If Saddam had turned over approximately 1,000 liters, with supporting documentation, to the weapons inspectors, would that satisfy the Bush administration. I doubt it. They would claim that if he turned over 1,000 liters that easily, he must really have made 2,000 liters, and is still hiding 1,000 liters. Terrorists have used conventional weapons against us. WMD where not used to attack the World Trade Center towers, the USS Cole, nor the embassy attacks. Timothy McVey (or own home-grown terrorist) used a conventional bomb in Oklahoma city. This war will not make it more difficult for terrorists to obtain nor make conventional weapons. I'm sure that they would like WMD, but they can function very well without them. Something as simple as a series of car bombs could have a major, short-term effect. This war will incite more hatred for the US in the Arab world, and more people will be willing to martyr themselves as suicide bombers and terrorists. |
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