19th March 2003, 1:13 AM
Ah, of course. The fact that we saved them 60 years ago means that they should be our willing servants in the face of strong popular opposition to war... naturally! Sure makes sense to me!
It is very, very sad that Bush is going to war. Sure, I saw it coming months and months ago, but it's still very, very sad... it proves how awful Bush is. Why are we going to war? Simple reason: Because Bush bungled diplomacy so badly that he got most of the world to hate him. Great job there! Of course given his disdain for the rest of the world I have ot wonder if it wasn't intentional...
You know all those people who say Bush is the biggest threat to world peace on earth? I'm certainly inclined to agree... and its definitely true that he's done a great job at destroying alliances that have lasted for decades, or at least doing his best to do that...
Is Sadaam hiding chemical and biological weapons? Yeah, probably. Is he hiding a nuclear program? Very doubtful... I bet he would if he could, but in this climate he can't. Not in this climate.
I just can't understand how anyone could want to go to war all by ourselves against someone who hasn't done anything new thats bad in over 10 years... Iraq is NOT connected in any way to Al-Quaeda, from everything I've seen... the only terrorists they fund are the Palestinians, who are also funded by US "allies" in Egypt and Saudi Arabia... it also doesn't make sense that when the world stands up to blatant American agression it suddenly is "useless". I'd say that it proves that the UN is becoming a better representation of the world's political opinions...
Look at the polls. In the US, the last poll I saw said 47% supported war without the UN, 27% more with it, and 13% were against war. However, in Europe, the numbers are VERY different. There, in pretty much any European nation, the numbers supporting UN-less unilateral action is under 20%... WELL under in many cases. NO WONDER that so many European governments are against war! You should also note that the ones for war are all doing it in the face of public opinion, which is strongly against war almost everywhere that isn't the US... which is why, for example, Spain won't participate in the actual fighting -- the government knows how small the percentage supporting war actually is...
The big question is why the percentage is so high in the US. The answer, of course, is simple... People are really stupid are are easily influenced by prowar propaganda. Of course there is a percentage that wanted war ever since Sadaam was left in power 12 years ago, but not 48%... not anywhere near. But people hear how war is good and slowly begin to believe it... the public really is not too hard to manipulate if you do it right... at least, enough of it is to make a majority...
Anyway. Public opinion almost everywhere is very strongly antiwar. Thus many governments are reluctant to support a war with as little "proof" as this one has... Bush has yet to make a single half-decent reason that war should be on the table now. Not one... there isn't a goal he wants that a decent job of diplomacy and some greatly strengthened inspections (with some troops left in the area to get Sadaam to comply more) couldn't have done if Bush had cared at all at trying diplomacy... but he never did, so that wasn't an option. And the result? The near-unanimous international dislike for the United States and George W. Bush in particular. Great job... not that he cares. Bush and his administration have proven time and time again that they don't even begin to care about internatinal opinion. Idiots...
Oh, and the French have said that if Iraq uses chemical or biological weapons, they'll support the war cooalition.
It is very, very sad that Bush is going to war. Sure, I saw it coming months and months ago, but it's still very, very sad... it proves how awful Bush is. Why are we going to war? Simple reason: Because Bush bungled diplomacy so badly that he got most of the world to hate him. Great job there! Of course given his disdain for the rest of the world I have ot wonder if it wasn't intentional...
You know all those people who say Bush is the biggest threat to world peace on earth? I'm certainly inclined to agree... and its definitely true that he's done a great job at destroying alliances that have lasted for decades, or at least doing his best to do that...
Is Sadaam hiding chemical and biological weapons? Yeah, probably. Is he hiding a nuclear program? Very doubtful... I bet he would if he could, but in this climate he can't. Not in this climate.
I just can't understand how anyone could want to go to war all by ourselves against someone who hasn't done anything new thats bad in over 10 years... Iraq is NOT connected in any way to Al-Quaeda, from everything I've seen... the only terrorists they fund are the Palestinians, who are also funded by US "allies" in Egypt and Saudi Arabia... it also doesn't make sense that when the world stands up to blatant American agression it suddenly is "useless". I'd say that it proves that the UN is becoming a better representation of the world's political opinions...
Look at the polls. In the US, the last poll I saw said 47% supported war without the UN, 27% more with it, and 13% were against war. However, in Europe, the numbers are VERY different. There, in pretty much any European nation, the numbers supporting UN-less unilateral action is under 20%... WELL under in many cases. NO WONDER that so many European governments are against war! You should also note that the ones for war are all doing it in the face of public opinion, which is strongly against war almost everywhere that isn't the US... which is why, for example, Spain won't participate in the actual fighting -- the government knows how small the percentage supporting war actually is...
The big question is why the percentage is so high in the US. The answer, of course, is simple... People are really stupid are are easily influenced by prowar propaganda. Of course there is a percentage that wanted war ever since Sadaam was left in power 12 years ago, but not 48%... not anywhere near. But people hear how war is good and slowly begin to believe it... the public really is not too hard to manipulate if you do it right... at least, enough of it is to make a majority...
Anyway. Public opinion almost everywhere is very strongly antiwar. Thus many governments are reluctant to support a war with as little "proof" as this one has... Bush has yet to make a single half-decent reason that war should be on the table now. Not one... there isn't a goal he wants that a decent job of diplomacy and some greatly strengthened inspections (with some troops left in the area to get Sadaam to comply more) couldn't have done if Bush had cared at all at trying diplomacy... but he never did, so that wasn't an option. And the result? The near-unanimous international dislike for the United States and George W. Bush in particular. Great job... not that he cares. Bush and his administration have proven time and time again that they don't even begin to care about internatinal opinion. Idiots...
Oh, and the French have said that if Iraq uses chemical or biological weapons, they'll support the war cooalition.
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