It’s time I put my two cents in about the impending war with Iraq by saying: Blow the bastards away!
What are we saying by not doing anything? Are we saying that the United States can talk a good talk but it can’t walk the walk? We’re saying that we threatened them, they called our bluff; therefore, we will not act. No, that is unacceptable.
Saddam Hussein has proven time and time again that he is not willing to cooperate. He is willingly and knowingly keeping weapons of mass destruction, and this fact has been announced by the major networks and newspapers as well as by Secretary of State Colin Powell in a dramatic address in front of the United Nations nearly two weeks ago.
What should America do? Smile, slap his wrist and say, “Mr. Hussein, you naughty, naughty boy,” and then pretend that he’ll behave himself? People like him do not understand pretty words of negotiations and talk. They understand only one thing — action.
The United States must take action. We have to send the message that we will not merely sit idle while Hussein uses the time to plan, and eventually carry out, a devastating attack on the United States or any other nation. He’s done it before, by overrunning Kuwait in a blitzkreig.
However, on the opposite side, why now? Why after all this time, why after Desert Storm, when we had the opportunity to take out the madman behind the chaos? It’s all about the money. And it always will be. America may not be able to afford war with Iraq, financially, but can it afford what will happen if action is not taken?
There has been much speculation on what will happen when we do go to war. Will there be suicide attacks? Will Saddam let loose his weapons of mass destruction on our troops? Will there be a bloodbath in Baghdad? No one can answer these questions. I can’t answer these questions. Is that the reason people balk at the word ‘war’?
Some people may think America’s president is merely finishing what his dad, former President George Bush, started, and perhaps that’s true. However, I believed even then there was a time for action. We acted, responded to a threat and launched Desert Storm. But we never really finished the job. We never went to Baghdad and put Hussein away. If the United States had, we would be able to put more effort into the ‘War on Terrorism’ instead of dividing our
efforts between Hussein and Osama bin Laden.
There is a time for everything. There is a time to talk and negotiate and a time to act. That time is now. America must show the world that our country stands behind its leader. We must show the world that we support war because we want Hussein’s plots of destruction to be resolved. We do not want them closer to our back door.
Let me bring this a little closer to home for those who think war with Iraq is unnecessary. I see a day of disorder, a day when Hussein uses those weapons of mass destruction because the United States hoped words were enough. I see a day when the people of this great nation will be falling to their knees for mercy and be denied that small act. On this day, once the weapons have been deployed, what is to stop them from entering our country and destroying what little we would have left? Fear and death would be so much more than what would be — it would be closer; it would be here.
It is in our faces now. It is close to home now. How much closer will it have to be for people to want to react? Would you like them at your home, killing your loved ones? Would you act then? No, yes, maybe … by then, it would be too late … by then, we would have had our chance, but by then we would be dead.