Major television networks are flooding our screens with video footage of missiles striking Iraqi targets, shattering Presidential Palaces, and bombarding Iraqi military positions. Iraq is responding to the Coalition offensive strikes as best it can; Saddam is encouraging his troops to fight vigilantly, that Iraq is positioned to successfully repel the Coalition forces. Of course our nation, with the help of other Coalition forces, is overpowering Saddam’s military and are accomplishing its military initiatives without much resistance from the opposition. Iraq, however, is using the Aljazeer network to broadcast footage of American Prisoners of War being tortured and k

As long as the desire remains, the Iraqi people will continue to develop nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons for satisfying their own desires. Who are we to stop them? We develop chemical weapons for use against our “enemies”, and have nuclear capabilities that could potentially destroy the entire planet. We also have a president that has declared a “War on Terrorism” and has systematically gone on a headhunting expedition for members of Al Queda. Technically, he has declared war on two countries in the past three years: Afghanistan and Iraq.

This argument can be extended beyond the scope of our current situation of Iraq to our current “War on Terrorism”. President Bush can spend as much money and devote as much resources as he wants to rid the world of this “evil”. His war on terrorism reminds me of something I heard when I was little: “You might as well be pissin’ in the wind”. As long as the United States is the dominating world power, there are going to be leaders that oppose us and view our society as a threat to theirs. We may be able to destroy the Al Queda network, but we can’t destroy the thoughts or values of those people. Terrorism will not stop even when every member of Al Queda have been rounded up like cattle and imprisoned. Similarly, the threat of the Iraqi people and their weapons of mass destruction will not be eliminated with the removal of Saddam from power and the destruction of what weapons of mass destruction we can find.

An example of our nation repeating history can be found in the late nineties War Against Drugs. President Clinton decided that by assassinating Pablo Escobar, he would be removing the source of our nation’s drug problem with cocaine. He sent special agents into Columbia to take out the head of the Columbian drug cartel, and they were successful in their mission. What resulted from this action is not a shocker: studies have shown that there is even more cocaine coming across the Mexican border and shipped in through the ports of Miami than ever before. The problem has actually gotten worse because Escobar’s cartel has since divided into multiple factions. These factions are too small to investigate individually, and they work together hidden behind legitimate business fronts to ship the drugs into America. It is illogical to assume that by removing Saddam from power that we will be eliminating the source of the threats that we now face from that region. It is safe to assume that followers of Saddam would view his death as that of a martyr. His followers would view our assassination of their leader as a direct assault on all that they have fought for and value as a people. Fanatics would step up and inspire their followers to fight back

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