| BuffyAngelFan04: I am all for the concept of peace... but at the same time the photographs that I saw of dead Kurdish women and children who were gased by Saddam Huissein a number of years ago are seared into my brain.
As for the WMD whatever... from what I have read there probably was a lot of false intelligence being purposely spread about how Iraq had WMD. Also... Iraq being a relatively large country... and given the long lead time to the war... in my opinion, it is very likely that WMD got moved to another country. Along with a whack of money, etc.
Also by my understanding the UN and a lot of the world community were not against going to war with Iraq... but were voicing their opinions that a war with Iraq should be one sanctioned by the UN.
I'm Canadian... and by my memory the Canadian government just prior to the war with Iraq was stating that Canada would participate if the war was sanctioned by the UN.
Also the UN was in discussions about whether to go to war with Iraq because it appeared that Saddam Huissein was contravening and obstructing the UN weapons inspection program. In my opinion, it's very possible that even if the US hadn't decided to attack Iraq with the coalition it formed, that the UN would have come to the same conclusion within a few weeks, or months. Which would have probably provided less scope for the blame the Americans for all sorts of stuff whatever.
But the stuff that has already happened has already happened. I think that moving forward is the best way to go... for any country.
And I think that at this point in time that the most viable way to move forward would be to have the security whatevers in Iraq overseen by the UN.
Note that I can understand in some ways the US government's original reluctance to wait for the UN to sanction the Iraq war a year ago... because the UN does have a whack of dictatorships as member states. I also am of the opinion that at least a part of France, Germany and even Canada's reluctance to go to war with Iraq, was related to the whatever that France and Germany had business dealings concerning oil with Iraq and that Jean Chretien... the Prime Minister of Canada at that point in time... has relatives through marriage who had business dealings of the oil related type with Iraq.
Any ways... I have the notion that whether Bush, or Kerry will be elected that the US military will probably remain in Iraq for at least a couple of years... but that the military presence will be labelled a UN Peacekeeping force and that more other countries will be involved.
And by my understanding... the opinion of a lot of Iraqis is that they don't want the American military to be in Iraq... but that at the same time that they don't want the US to leave just yet because of the worries about security.
And it is also obvious that a lot of Americans don't want to be bogged down in a dangerous situation in Iraq and also don't want the US to be labelled as being imperialistic.
Yep... me thinks that arranging that the UN be responsible for providing the people of Iraq with security... until some point in time where the Iraqis can provide their own security... would be the way to go. And if the UN were to be in charge of PEACE KEEPING... in Iraq... then perhaps some of the neighbouring Arab states could also provide peace keeping forces along with European and other countries whose populace wouldn't support an occupation type whatever but would support a peace keeping mission that had the approval of the UN.
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