Saddam Hussein becoming a threat? There’s a fine line between wary and paranoid, and America’s on the verge of crossing that line. Not to mention defying the expressed disgust of the rest of the world.

The US needs to get a nice kick in the ass and realize that, no, the world does not revolve around them–and that minding one’s own business does one much good.

Cut the bullshit.

War with Iraq is stupid because people die and why do you think that they are punks or bastards you don’t know them what if they’re nice people ost of them don’t want to go to war but saddam forces them to. think of you being caled a bastard. I think this whole thingis about the U.S. getting richer and taking he oil from Iraq. What will happen to the people of Iraq after the war !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To start with, George Tenet, director of the CIA has specifically stated to Congress that the no-fly zones are having an effect of reducing Saddam’s ability move his conventional forces around, which are now reduced to half their Gulf War size. Economic sanctions make it harder to re-arm his troops. Ultimately, this means that the Iraq of today we’re facing is signficantly weaker in terms of total strength then they were ten years ago. Considering the difficulty Saddam is having building conventional forces, of course he would seek to clandestinely produce WMD, but there is no concrete evidence he can in fact build any weapon today. I have seen no evidence for a war that was up-to-date or convincing. Much has been said of his capabilities in the late 1990s, but very little has been proven to be the case.

Considering all of this, I would suggest that it is more accurate to describe this as not just an act of aggression, but a pre-emptive act of aggression in search of a valued commodity. Control of Iraq means a much strengthened hand in power politics regarding oil.

The biggest effect would not be moving Saudi Arabia away from us, but towards us, as it sees the continued futility of opposing American oil demands; insuring a continuance of their policy of trading oil for security. That would stabilize oil prices for Americans, and insure American hegemony abroad as well. In addition, our “allies”, such as France and Russia, who either have oil concessions in Iraq post-sanction, or would like to, will find that an American-backed and controlled regime will be happy to allow these allies to extract crude oil from Iraq. Will there be any doubt at who’s largess they will be enjoying? Our allies will know full well who the real master of that house will be.