Why such division on this?

[gwyyn]

1st April 2003 at 05:00 AM Rae Naval said this in Post #16

I myself do not support the war for a number of reasons...
those being.
Diplomacy has not been exausted.
I don't believe that Iraq poses any kind of threat to the U.S. Saddam has done nothing in the last 12yrs to warrant a full out invasion. (The US spends 300 billion dollars annually on defence spending, the combined defence budget of the 7 nations that pose the greatest threat to the US is only 17billion)
The U.S. is not in this war to help the Iraqi people... for one there are only vague if any plans to implement and maintain any sort of gov't after Iraq is liberated. (look what happened to Afghanistan)
The U.S. is going to war for it's own interests. Those interests namely being 3.4 trillion dollars worth of estimated Iraqi oil reserves.
War devastates (economic embargos have already resulted in the deaths of over 500 000 children under 5).
It dosen't matter what anyone says about how accurate bombs are. For one the U.S. has bombed bridges hospitals and roads water treatment areas and so on. Now without water hospitals and roads the Iraqi people in the end will not be benefitting (just think about what your town would be like without water, roads, hospitals)

To those who say the media is all Liberal, I reccomend reading up on Noam Chompsky's Manufacturing consent. If the media truly were more liberal I think we would be seeing much more balanced argument for the war. That being said does the news talk about the dead children in Iraq who died as a result of bombing, not really.  http://www.robert-fisk.com/iraqwarvictims_mar2003.htm

The only thing that i support in this war is the fact that they may get rid of Saddam.

 

I'm sorry but the starving children in Iraq is not anyone's fault but Saddams.  He's one the one who used the money from the money for oil program to boost himself and not help his people.  60 percent of Iraqi's depended on the UN aid for food.  And we've already started bringing in aid for the Iraqi's and it was the Iraqi military that opened fire on thier own people who were getting food.

Also  what about Saddam threatining to take children away from families, if they don't pick up arms and fight.