Folks.....we're putting the blame on the wrong person methinks. In regards to Iran, the UN stipulated in 1991 that arms inspectors will be in Iran to verify that weapons of mass destruction aren't available, being made, or being bought. So, where are the arms inspectors the UN placed in Iran? They sure aren't in Iran.....they were unceremoniously booted. What did the UN do to rectify this problem? Nothing. So for a number of years, a man who is guilty of gassing his own people, has been left alone to do as he sees fit in acquiring, building, and purchasing weapons of mass destruction. If my memory serves me, I remember at least two people in the last century of making it obligatory to kill his own people. I think Hitler and Stalin were their names. I also remember in History a gentlman, a well meaning gentleman by the way decided along with his political superiors to give part of a country away, by the way not his country, to appease a certain dictator. I don't remember a vote being taken in the unfortunate country whether they wanted to be part of Germany again. Doesn't matter. The appeasement unfortunately didn't work and alas.......another world war occured shortly thereafter.
My take since 9/11.......the UN is even more worthless then I had thought. Sorry to say that but it's obivious there's no backbone there. I don't recall any other country having lost 3000 people in one day during the recent past. Oh........I forgot citizens of 92 coutries died during 9/11/01. So....does the world let Hussein continue until he decides to nuke, gas or murder more people and become a larger threat to mankind? Or does the US, Great Britain......appears also France is going to enter along side the US and Great Britain, and from what I've read recently that Spain is also leaning that way, dispose of this threat? Or does the UN do what it does best......let the US be the badguy so that their image as a peace making body is not tarnished? Or do they tell Iran..........look..........w eapons inspectors are going to be a way of life as we declared in 1991?
Nelson Mandella has chimed in and said " The US is the biggest threat to World Peace." I wonder what Nelson has for intelligence gathering equipment seeing as how he is no longer of any consequence as an elected official. I wonder what intelligence information he could dig up with two dug out canoes and a kite. As always opinions vary.....but you've heard this quote many times "Those who forget History are doomed to repeat it." It's corny and oft repeated....but guess what...it has proven to be true.
Let's Roll one way or the other UN backed and supported.......or do it without the testically impaired.
War is ignorant.......it's a waste of many things. But what is more ignorant, is hoping that the threat will go away.....and finding out the threat is in your backyard, and many people have died or been injured because of a lack of action of some nature. Hopefully it's not war.
Hajo
