To Whom It May Concern

Sometimes War Is Necessary

It’s odd really, I’ve changed my feelings a lot about this war with Iraq over the past 10 days or so based on what I’ve been reading and watching on television.

For a long time I was completely against this war, I figured we were putting a big stick into a hornet’s nest and that all that was going to come out of it even if we were able to take Saddam from power was that there would be a million more fundamentalist morons that want to come bomb the United States.

But I’ve come to realize the necessity of punishment for Saddam for his actions against Kuwait in 1990. Iraqi troops destroyed more than 700 well heads in Kuwait, turning its oil fields into an environmental disaster, a desert inferno that took seven months to extinguish. It took Kuwait more than two years and $50 billion to restore its oil output to prewar levels. After Iraq was pushed out of Kuwait, Saddam was given a strict set of sanctions in order for him to remain in power in Iraq.

Only an ignorant fool would argue that ‘more time’ is needed for Saddam to comply with demands. He has been given 12 years with which to comply with the United Nations sanctions, how much more time does he need?? I say none, I say that diplomacy has gone as far as it’s going to go and that it is high time for military action against this tyrant.

Why should the United States wait for the United Nations to make up it’s mind about what they want to do about Saddam? And don’t give me that crap about how ‘inspections are working, just give them time’. The United Nations has made a mockery of itself by continually allowing Saddam to mistreat inspectors and kick them out repeatedly when they either find illegal weapons or say things that Saddam doesn’t agree with. Do you honestly think that Saddam would even allow weapons inspectors into Iraq except for the threat of military action against him by the United States? HELL NO, he wouldn’t be, so to back down now would be the worst mistake the United States’ military could possibly do.

The world is against us? So what else is new? The United Nations has continually requested support from the United States in conflict after conflict and has continually gotten what they asked for, and in many cases the United States is seen as an aggressor because of this, and ends up with a black eye. It’s a classic example of damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Damned if you do go in and break up the fighting between the Serbs and the Croats in Bosnia, because you get labeled as abusive aggressors, and damned if you don’t and the world accuses you of standing by as atrocities take place.

The Bosnian conflict took place right in Germany and France’s back yard, yet those countries weren’t able to do anything about it and finally the United States military under UN control is called in to try and make peace. So don’t tell me about the rest of the world not backing the United States up when they can’t take care of their own messes. Waiting on the rest of the world to make up their mind about things would be like waiting for my dead grandmother to make me some cookies, it’s never going to happen.

It’s a war about oil and money? First off, you aren’t seeing the whole picture at all. Secondly, so what if part of the scenario includes money from the oil in Iraq??? As I stated before, Iraq cost Kuwait more than $50 billion dollars to repair the damage done JUST to their oil industry, to say nothing of the loss of life caused by Iraq’s disregard for the sovereignty of another nation. If Saddam is removed from power, you damn well better believe that the oil is going to be used to pay off the debts that Iraq has incurred over the past 32 years since Saddam has come into power.

Bush told Saddam months ago what he was going to do, and now he’s doing it, it’s not as though this is some horrendous surprise, that the United States is pulling a ‘fast one’ on everyone by attacking Iraq, this has been a long time coming, Bush simply gave Saddam some simple demands, demands that fell in line with the United Nation’s sanctions, and Saddam has rejected those demands. This isn’t some ‘aggressive illegal act by a rogue nation’, Iraq put themselves on this map towards destruction 12 years ago with an unprovoked attack on Kuwait, don’t EVER forget that.