US Attack on Iraq: Just Do It!

re:#80 by S.P.Wakil
It does not matter what George Bush is. He is still the head of one of the greatest democracies in the world and deserves our respect. What have the convent educated, anglicised bureacrats of India and Pak done? IAS in India is a corrupt organisation. People come to politics in India only to make money. In Pak, the situation is worse. Dubya may be a simpleton but at least he is not corrupt. The guy is religious. I personally like him. He has surrounded himself with smart people(as Dennis Miller, the comedian jocularly put it in a conversation with Phil Donohue recently, just like a hole that surrounds itself with a Doughnut!).
Sridhar

re:#29 by ahmadzai
You seem to be on some kind of drug hallucinating all the time. Sangh Parivar in India exists because there is democracy there. It had to wait many decades before it gained in popularity. It was a banned organisation during much of first 2 decades following India`s independence. It has gained in popularity due to failure of pseudo-secularism practised by Congress party and more recently due to the bad image muslims are suffering from, where everything Islamic is looked with suspicion and every muslim is looked upon as a terrorist. BJP and the Sangh parivar thrive on this image now and do not seem to need the RJB/Temple issue anymore. Still, Sangh Parivar exists much the same way as Louis Farrakhan and KKK exist in US. India is a democracy and the good and ugly coexist. People will decide who is good or who is bad. You have problems with that? Tough luck.

``In India, under the leadership of Advanis and Modis, the fanatics are beating up the minorities and are becoming Saffron Holy Warriors. ``
Your country suffers because people like you do not have the intellectual honesty to see where your country is headed for. RSS and Sangh Parivar is not a threat to world peace. It is not even a threat to India`s peace. People of India and the democratic process will take care of the problems. Pakistan, OTOH, is fast becoming a pariah state. I would worry about Pak`s very existence now if i were a Paki (and i thank God i am not).
Sridhar

thanks S.P. Wakil for the mother of all quotes:

````People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and
have a tremendous impact on history.``
....Governor George W. Bush, Jr.

ana_dobara #1

Very true. It does need to be fixed-- by a vet!

PAF chief died in air crash. Odd that a lot of senior Pakistani generals die in plane crashes. It seems odd for an air force that boasts of an excellent safety record.

it looks like this one might be a simple pilot error in bad weather

Maz,s article is contradictory. he accepts that the USA has not been able to convince the world of its justification to attack iraq but should go ahead and do it anyway. is that not the law of the jungle? who appointed the usa as the policemn of this world ?. who is going to be next ?
in their desperation to convince the world the usa is getting more and more pathetic in its justifications. what is a weapon of mass destruction?
does a nuclear bomb not fall under this category? is not the usa the only country in the world to have used them?
americans are polarising this world in a manner that they shall regret later, for even they in all their glory will not be able to control it.

Only a psychopath can suggest that the US should attack Iraq simply because the failure of the US foreign policy is generating hatred in the Muslim world and as a result Muslim fundamentalists are growing in stature. ``Anything that gives hope for change should be welcomed``, yes even if results in thousands of civilian deaths! my number 7 foot. This article is the product of a mind infected with US imperialism.

I would like to weigh in and clarify some of the points which have been raised. First of all, if you look beyond the title, this article is not really about supporting the war. The central theme of the article is that we should focus on the people of Iraq and what is good for them not just debate whether the President Bush is making a persuasive case or not.

Take the case of Afghanistan; it is very clear that the people of Afghanistan are better off today and have a much better prospects for the future than they ever had. If the US had not gone to Afghanistan, people would still be living under Taliban and Afghanistan would still be ‘Planet of The Apes’. If, for a moment, we just think about the people of Iraq, without over analyzing and over intellectualizing why USA is doing what it’s doing, it becomes very clear that removal of Saddam will be a good thing. I hate wars but I have no doubt that people of Iraq will be better off without Saddam Hussain. His empty rhetoric has brought nothing but misery and suffering to great people of Iraq. I really wish that United Nations would remove Saddam Hussain, but if they don’t do it, it does not really matter who does it. Once the nuances like Saddam are gone world should focus its attention to the ‘Nexus of Evil’ Saudi Arabia, which funds and promotes militant Islam throughout the world.