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Originally posted by TruBluePony
On a humurous note did anybody else happen to catch Fox News Sunday in the morning when they were talking about the human shields leaving? They had that red bar at the bottom and it said "Scared Shields" You gotta love Fox News.
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They left because they 'felt they were in harms way...too dangerous for them to stay'. What a bunch of idiots.
France, Germany and Russia need to take there head out of their asses and wake up to the real, clear and present danger that Iraq poses.
What's more is that other tyrantistic leaders now very clearly see that the U.N. is rapidly becoming a meaningless organization that bickers until it's blue in the face all while accomplishing next to nothing. The U.N. passes resolutions that say one thing and then they do something different. It's analogous to a parent who threatens to take away TV privileges if their kids don't behave and then they never follow through with the punishment: The kids quickly learn that they can in fact get away with misbehaving, or lying, or whatever. There are no, or little, repercussions for their actions.
The most ironic item I find in this whole debacle is the fact that Iraq declared that they had no WMD or other 'banned' missles, etc....and now they are blowing up or dismanteling the very items they swore they didn't have? What's next, a few containers of VX nerve gas? At the current rate they are 'destroying' weapons, it would be 100 years before all the current weapons are destroyed. Add to that the fact that Saddam most likey has secret underground operations that are continuing to build/design more WMDs and we would be in a worse situation down the road.
I have to say that it really does amaze me that France and Germany, most especially, do not see the striking similarities between the current situation with Saddam and Hitler in WWII. Yes, it's a vastly different world and time, but it boils down to the same equation: A tyrant leader who will stop at nothing to stay in power, amassing WMD, tourturing, execution and the like of his own people, a society so scared to say anything in the least bit negative about the government or Saddam that they fear for their very lives and the lives of their family members, the list goes on and on.
As for the anti-war crowd: The issue of stability in the Middle East has become a 'crutch' to many who oppose war. Many feel that war will upset the stability (a loosely used term here) of Iraq and it's neighbors and will only harbor more ill will towards America. While this may be true in the short term, I think we have to look long term. First, the 'stability' in the Middle East itself is ironic. The liberation of Iraq and the process of establishing a somewhat sound democratic Iraqi government will not be easy and will not be quick. But, the alternative, in my view, is much worse.
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