Why the international community must stand up to Saddam!
Harlequin | 05.03.2003 13:21
Saddam is an extremely dangerous dictator left alone he will develope and stockpile weapons of mass destruction and will use them to intimidate and threaten his neighbours. If he vis left until he develops nuclear weapons then that will lead to an extremely dangerous situation.
Bush and Blair are right to stand up to Saddam Hussain and call on other countries in the UN to back military action if he refuses to disarm. Saddam has used weapons of mass destruction in the past during the Iran/Iraq war and against the Kurds in Halabja. He has no qualms about using them again. He has invaded two of his neghbours Iran and Kuwait and after the last Gulf War he set fire to all the Kuwaiti oil fields and poured crude oil into the Persian Gulf. So there is no doubt that he is a very dangerous and ruthless dictator.
Saddam has only allowed weapons inspectors into Iraq now because of the massive military build up in the Gulf and the threat to invade his country. Failure to back up UN resolution 1441 with military force will also reduce the authority of the UN reducing it to a talking shop with no guts to use force to enforce its decisions. That would encourage other rogue states to do as they liked with no fear of retaliation and lead to a very dangerous world!
How would the anti-war movement suggest we go about disarming Saddam Hussein without the threat of war! Quite clearly there is no alternative that will get Saddam to disarm other than the threat to use force if he refuses.
Saddam has only allowed weapons inspectors into Iraq now because of the massive military build up in the Gulf and the threat to invade his country. Failure to back up UN resolution 1441 with military force will also reduce the authority of the UN reducing it to a talking shop with no guts to use force to enforce its decisions. That would encourage other rogue states to do as they liked with no fear of retaliation and lead to a very dangerous world!
How would the anti-war movement suggest we go about disarming Saddam Hussein without the threat of war! Quite clearly there is no alternative that will get Saddam to disarm other than the threat to use force if he refuses.
Harlequin
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