At the
one-year anniversary of 9-11, President George W. Bush is on the
brink of war with Iraq.
In the past year, W’s finger has gradually shifted from Osama
bin Laden, to the Taliban, to the “Axis of Evil” (which
included Iraq) and now to Saddam Hussein, the man who gave his father
so much trouble a decade ago.
As the Daily Show’s Jon Stewart put it, for the last few months,
there as been a “War of the Words.” Bush has been in the
newspapers on a daily basis trying to rally support for his war.
The Bush administration keeps telling us that Iraq has been lying
to the United Nations about its weapons of mass destruction.
This has been countered by the U.N.’s former chief weapons
inspector in Iraq, Scott Ritter, who claims Iraq has no place to
build weapons of mass destruction, and if it was, it could be easily
detectable by satellite.
The New York Times released on Sunday a poll showing the majority
of Americans “Do not want war with out Congressional and allied
support first and a clear explanation from President Bush.”
Congressional support is a good idea, seeing how the United States
has not had it before going to war since World War II.
Probably the biggest factor in W’s war is we really have no
allies willing to fight it with us.
According to The New York Times poll two-thirds of Americans said
“the nation needed to wait for support from its allies.”
Still Bush’s trigger-happy finger points at the Middle East
and daddy’s archenemy, America’s archenemy.
What would a war in Iraq prove?
That Bush the selected can step up where Bush the elected left off?
That America is still the undisputed champion of the world?
Seriously, why attack Iraq?
I see no threat in Iraq that is not a direct result of something
the United States has done over in the Middle East.
If we stop playing daddy to the entire world, I doubt there will
be any threat from Hussein, bin Laden or any one else.
It has become us (meaning the United State of America) versus them
(meaning everyone that is not a democratic nation in the Western
Hemisphere)
We keep pointing our finger to the east and saying “they hate
our freedom” or “they just want to be like us, so let’s
go make them like us.”
9-11 did not happen because bin Laden “hates our freedom.”
It happened because U.S. foreign policy is hurting the human beings
that happen to be Arabic and live in the Middle East.
Just look at the Israel-Palestine situation. US-sponsored Israel
violates human rights on a regular basis.
How would you like it if our children could not walk in the street
with out getting shot in the head or run over by a tank?
The only problem is desperate Palestinians take the wrong approach
by suicide bombing the Israelis.
You see, it is not us versus them like Bush makes it out to be.
Saddam Hussein may be a threat to the United States, if he had weapons
of mass destruction, but the US is at fault, too. We are not perfect,
and I’m sure we have done some horrible things in the Middle
East that our news fails to mention to us.
I’m glad to see that the majority of Americans can question
this war George Bush is asking for. |
