Well I return to put in my 2 cents. I have heard over 40 years of such speaches. The problems still exist. SO blah blah blah- kinda reminds me of the jw thought of floating dates and timetables-
Sadam is evil. Yes we have heard that every day for some time now. The un found what 16 empty containers and we have the word of intellegence sources and guys in prison that thus and so is going on. And now, just now we all of a sudden are concerned over the welfare of these poor people in Iraq. Of course there was no discourse about the plight of millions of others around the globe. SO yes sadam is not a good man. He has the potential of even worse things. To date he has been the most damaging to his own- according to the politics of the day. Nothing, I repeat nothing Bush provided in his speach was new. Each and every charge that he levied against this evil man has already been made public. My question remains the same: If the iraq situation is so bad to the point of requiring the US to launch an attack- why - please tell me why- those in sadams part of the world have to be convinced by us of this need? Would not those that live closest to his nation be begging our action instead of shying away from the war? This is the part that I find most bewildering.
Let us see what "new" info Powell provides on the 5th of Feb. My gut feel, especially after Bushes speach tonight, is there is nothing new. It all falls on the concept of "evil" and that the US has a moral obligation. Though I do not agree that we have a moral obligation I do agree that sadam is evil. However, I do not see that either of these puts the US in a postition to justify war. As ex-jws we should be experts at identifying a brainwash job. For months on end the brainwash has been put out- if we say that sadam is evil enough times people will buy the war. If we say that the last days began in 1914 over and over again- hey they will buy it- and for a long time a lot of us here did and tried to sell it to others.
Edited by - kelsey007 on 29 January 2003 3:45:24