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in reply to a message by Nanaea
Nobody wants Saddam Hussain left in power, but the US involvement in this war is so suspect and so dirty.
I still want this war stopped. If intervention is necessary, it needs to come from the UN. It is time we made some progress in dealing with conflict of action/opinion that does not involve war. And if the US would pay the money it owes to the UN, this might actually be feasible. Instead of spending $400 billion a year (between a tenth and a quarter of which would be enough to end world hunger) on an army which is currently bombing Columbia (as well as Iraq) with little or no justification.
Nor in any previous US intervention have they succeeded in putting in place subsequently a democratic government. Not in fifty years of 'intervention' in more than thirty countries.
I hear that the US have decreed that only US companies will get to rebuild Iraq after the war (let us not even mention oil) - is this a 'just war' or a exercise in propping up the US economy?
No country should be encouraged to enter into a war in which the potential profits for themselves are so great.
I am ashamed of the UK government for supporting this action.
I still want this war stopped. If intervention is necessary, it needs to come from the UN. It is time we made some progress in dealing with conflict of action/opinion that does not involve war. And if the US would pay the money it owes to the UN, this might actually be feasible. Instead of spending $400 billion a year (between a tenth and a quarter of which would be enough to end world hunger) on an army which is currently bombing Columbia (as well as Iraq) with little or no justification.
Nor in any previous US intervention have they succeeded in putting in place subsequently a democratic government. Not in fifty years of 'intervention' in more than thirty countries.
I hear that the US have decreed that only US companies will get to rebuild Iraq after the war (let us not even mention oil) - is this a 'just war' or a exercise in propping up the US economy?
No country should be encouraged to enter into a war in which the potential profits for themselves are so great.
I am ashamed of the UK government for supporting this action.
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