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Sgt Sostand
03-17-03, 06:53 PM
I just got a petition for peace from my cousin. She just doesn't
understand. We don't need a petition for peace...
instead we need a "Petition for Peace through Disarmament"
-Michael Kuiper
USNA

here is why...
Saddam Hussein is the cause if it comes to war, as is increasingly
likely,not President Bush. After a dozen years of lies, and 17 U.N.
resolutions violated, Saddam continues to develop his weapons of mass
destruction, which he will not hesitate to use or sell to others. If
anyone saw Powell's presentation to the U.N. and came away not
convinced that Saddam not only has not disarmed as required by the
resolutions, but he has no intention of doing so, I am amazed.

I just don't understand why these protestors worldwide are not
demanding that Saddam listen to the U.N. and disarm as he is required
to do, and AS HE PROMISED TO DO a dozen years ago. I have a counter
suggestion below.

The French and Germans want the inspections to go on and on. Some say
that the French have billions in secret oil contracts, and the Germans
provided much of the equipment for his weapons research and
production, which may help explain their position, which conflicts
with 16 of the 19 NATO allies.
But the inspectors are not there to search for weapons; they are there
to confirm his disarmament. Saddam's refusal to allow scientists with
their families to be taken to a third country for interviews is
particularly telling. Of course they are not going speak up. In the
past, Saddam's rape police have raped scientists' wives and daughters
and sent videotapes to the scientists as a warning. Without a change
of heart on his part, the inspections are a largely a waste of time.
Eventually they may stumble across a few hundred, or even a few
thousand chemical or biological warheads, but that would still leave
tens of thousands for Saddam to use.

We only have a small window in which to operate effectively this year,
and we can't afford to wait another year. Clearly Saddam is trying to
stall until the weather makes it very difficult. I can't imagine
hiking across the desert in 120 degrees with a backpack, much less
with full military gear. Add to that a chemical protection suit, and
it seems impossible. The French and Germans are not the ones whose
boys and girls would be dropping like flies out on the desert; of
course it is easy for them to suggest a few more months of inspections.

If we back out now, without disarmament or regime change, we lose all
credibility in the world, and the war on terror will become a joke.
And if the U.N. does not join in with another resolution in support of
the "coalition of the willing," it will largely become irrelevant. No
one will take any U.N. resolution seriously again; they already have
little credibility. More important to me however is that the
credibility of the U.S. as the only real superpower would be seriously
undermined. Only by showing the world that we mean business will we
get the cooperation of dozens of countries around the world, where
terrorists hide, train, or receive financial support.

With all that said, I think there is still a small chance that he will
flee to asylum somewhere or, somewhat more likely, that he will be
overthrown in a coup. Also, I think the French, Germans and Russian
in the end will not veto the next resolution.

As far as a mass movement regarding Iraq, I think what would be far
more worthwhile, would be a mass call for prayer that Saddam will have
a change of heart. Imagine 10 million Jews, Christians and Muslims
(50 million worldwide) for 2 minutes, at precisely noon EST, next
Sunday, February 16, all simultaneously praying that God would touch
Saddam's heart so that he voluntarily disarms. You would not need days
to see if God has answered our prayer; a day would be enough. I could
see George Bush and Tony Blair joining in. If this 2 minutes doesn't
change his mind we have something else that can; bombs, missles,
tanks, men. Peace might only be achieved through war. We can't let
Iraq to be another South Korea.
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