JazzManJim
On the Downbeat
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To begin, I believe that some sort of armed response to remove Hussein is necessary and has been for at least four years now.
That being said, I read carefully the statement Colin Powell gave to the UN Security Council, as well as the responses from the nations on that Council. I've seen the photos and heard the taped conversations. I believe that, though they are not as black and white as some might like, they accent the point the administration has been making pretty nicely.
But I dont understand something here, and I've tried very hard to do so. How can someone - anyone - be in favor of yet more inspections and giving Hussein more time to do what he's spent since 1981 doing nearly withouth pause?
There are currently 17 UN Resolutions in effect, each one geared all or in part with disarming Hussein in the face of his using some of the most horrible weapons I can imagine and using them against helpless civilians. But he's had time to disarm and he's had the pressure of the entire world against him in every way but militarily. He's proven without dispute that he is easily capable of evading, delaying, and threatening every inspection team which has ever entered his country. He doesn't necessarily hide his efforts either.
Obviously, any inspection program we've yet imagined has not worked and there's no logical reason to expect that a return to any of them will work again. Countries like France, Germany, and Russia have called for something called "intrusive inspections" yet Resolution 1441 has been the most intrusive demand short of force of arms. They've not even proven willing to follow through with that resolution, since Hussein has clearly not done what the Resolution demanded. He has lied repeatedly and we, and the world, have allowed it, while millions have been slaughtered.
What more intrusive inspection program can we devise? What will work short of going in there and destroying the weapons whether he wants it done or not. We in the world have offered him chance after chance to do this the nice way and all he's done is laughed in our faces and retained and used his illegal weaponry. I just don't see anything else beyond force of arms that will do what must be done.
That being said, I read carefully the statement Colin Powell gave to the UN Security Council, as well as the responses from the nations on that Council. I've seen the photos and heard the taped conversations. I believe that, though they are not as black and white as some might like, they accent the point the administration has been making pretty nicely.
But I dont understand something here, and I've tried very hard to do so. How can someone - anyone - be in favor of yet more inspections and giving Hussein more time to do what he's spent since 1981 doing nearly withouth pause?
There are currently 17 UN Resolutions in effect, each one geared all or in part with disarming Hussein in the face of his using some of the most horrible weapons I can imagine and using them against helpless civilians. But he's had time to disarm and he's had the pressure of the entire world against him in every way but militarily. He's proven without dispute that he is easily capable of evading, delaying, and threatening every inspection team which has ever entered his country. He doesn't necessarily hide his efforts either.
Obviously, any inspection program we've yet imagined has not worked and there's no logical reason to expect that a return to any of them will work again. Countries like France, Germany, and Russia have called for something called "intrusive inspections" yet Resolution 1441 has been the most intrusive demand short of force of arms. They've not even proven willing to follow through with that resolution, since Hussein has clearly not done what the Resolution demanded. He has lied repeatedly and we, and the world, have allowed it, while millions have been slaughtered.
What more intrusive inspection program can we devise? What will work short of going in there and destroying the weapons whether he wants it done or not. We in the world have offered him chance after chance to do this the nice way and all he's done is laughed in our faces and retained and used his illegal weaponry. I just don't see anything else beyond force of arms that will do what must be done.
