- Joined
- Sep 12, 2002
- Messages
- 2,415
- Reaction score
- 2
The U.S. is not going to war for oil
The U.S. is going to war because in my opinion:
Containment has not worked. The problem with the containment strategy is that the United States and Britain are the only ones willing to contain the threat. Other countries have done nothing but try to get rid of the sanctions and containment policies and managed to dwindle them to practically nothing until the U.S. recently got serious and forced the issue. Also the containment strategy hurts the Iraqi people since they will be stuck with Saddam. War could be devastating to them IF things go wrong, but this is their last chance at getting rid of Saddam once and for all and the amount of civilian casualties would surely be less than
the number of people who would die by the hands of Sadda, Hussein if he is not overthrown. Iraq is after all, the only government which has rapists on the payroll.
Beatz: The people sueing will not win. People have tried this in every modern war the U.S. has fought(and always lose). None were "declared" wars. The reason the U.S. does not formally declare war is due to a legal ramification with regard to insurance policies. Some insurance policies will not pay out to victims if the damage is a result of a war in which the U.S. has made a formal declaration. The congress already approved military action in the case of Iraq.
I support war to overthrow Saddam since I believe there will be minimal civilian casualties. I believe this because by drawing the process out diplomatically and using crazy rhetoric, Bush has forced concession after concession from Saddam, while slowly tightening the noose.
See "Bush and the Art of Rope-a-Dope "
http://www.nationalpost.com/search/site/story.asp?id=B3396616-4836-4C4C-9863-A6762CE7DCCC
The U.S. is going to war because in my opinion:
Containment has not worked. The problem with the containment strategy is that the United States and Britain are the only ones willing to contain the threat. Other countries have done nothing but try to get rid of the sanctions and containment policies and managed to dwindle them to practically nothing until the U.S. recently got serious and forced the issue. Also the containment strategy hurts the Iraqi people since they will be stuck with Saddam. War could be devastating to them IF things go wrong, but this is their last chance at getting rid of Saddam once and for all and the amount of civilian casualties would surely be less than
the number of people who would die by the hands of Sadda, Hussein if he is not overthrown. Iraq is after all, the only government which has rapists on the payroll.
Beatz: The people sueing will not win. People have tried this in every modern war the U.S. has fought(and always lose). None were "declared" wars. The reason the U.S. does not formally declare war is due to a legal ramification with regard to insurance policies. Some insurance policies will not pay out to victims if the damage is a result of a war in which the U.S. has made a formal declaration. The congress already approved military action in the case of Iraq.
I support war to overthrow Saddam since I believe there will be minimal civilian casualties. I believe this because by drawing the process out diplomatically and using crazy rhetoric, Bush has forced concession after concession from Saddam, while slowly tightening the noose.
See "Bush and the Art of Rope-a-Dope "
http://www.nationalpost.com/search/site/story.asp?id=B3396616-4836-4C4C-9863-A6762CE7DCCC
