But the organizers are another matter. ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism), which the Washington Post called an "activist coalition," is in fact a front for the Workers World party, a Trotskyite cult that split from the Socialist Workers party in order to endorse the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. The WWP thus managed to embrace both Trotskyism and Stalinism — a neat trick. Half a century later, they are still in the streets, trying to fasten onto any convenient cause, while the same useful idiots (Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Jessica Lange) are willing to march along with them.

"I quote others only the better to express myself."

"I quote others only the better to express myself."

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Dr. Boyd

I fail to see what increased inspections are going to do with stopping the raping, torturing, and murders that are everyday experiences by the people of Iraq under the thumb of Saddam. And while you may not be a socialist or communist Dr. Boyd, the French and German governments are (socialist), who have helped Iraq (a fellow ideologue) in building their nuclear weapons program. If you remember, Israel bombed the plant the French built Iraq back in the seventies – thank God!

I would love for you to be more specific about which of the arguments the French and Germans are making that are more acceptable than ours, please, elucidate for the sake of understanding. Dr. Boyd, you asked some direct questions, I will give some direct answers:

“What's so wrong with just having a PERMANENT U.N. inspection crew over there?…. If we're really worried about this, let[’]s double the numbers, triple the numbers, whatever.”

From 1991 to 1998 we had inspectors all over that country. If memory serves me well, at its peak we had 6,000 [plus] inspectors on the ground. You spoke of doubling or tripling the inspectors we now have, even if you quadruple them it is still only 13.33 percent of what we had at one point. This shouldn’t be trivialized either Dr. Boyd, I will explain why. With this large number of inspectors at its peak, they still couldn’t find anything. It took one of Saddam’s top nuclear scientists to defect and tell us where some stuff was hidden for us to actually start finding it. If you take the amount of inspectors now and multiply them by 30, that won’t help, and the past has shown this to be true. Dr. Boyd, you also asked:

“Why do we have to think of this as a ‘job’ that has to have a time limit?”

This is an amazing statement! I don’t mean to be crass, but there should be a time limit given, it is common sense to ask for one. There are also examples of countries that have disarmed, such as South Africa, that have done so in a specific amount of time. So, not only should it be asked for (because they don't want us to be there forever, neither do we), we have actual “hard” examples to compare it with as well.

For some reason, people seem to gloss over the fact that in 1991, the U. N. brokered a peace treaty between the U. S. and Iraq that Saddam himself signed. He, Saddam that is, at that point gave up his nations sovereignty to the U. S. if he didn’t meet specific criteria therein. Not only has he violated these, but also every U. N. charter since. He is the only nation that has fired missiles into five nations, invaded three, and has killed (and still is) over 1.5 million Muslims, not to mention about 500,000 of his own people who disagree with his policies. This is the same person who is trying to actively build a working nuclear weapon, which the nuclear scientist who defected (mentioned above) says he already has.

With this in mind, what amount of dillydallying would change the mind of a madman who has a track record like this? You also made mention that you:

“… picture the young Iraqi soldiers, and the mothers and fathers of those soliders [soldiers], and little Iraqi kids... and if there's ANY WAY to avoid killing them, I'd rather do that.”

This picture that you vividly see in your mind is a poster and add put out by the Hollywood elite, who, for the most part, are not only anti-war, but also anti-American. I say this because many are self-avowed socialists. Albeit that this type of economic (and religious) view is popular on our university campuses, it is also popular with the left (remember my example of 58 democratic socialists in the House). And if you are an honest man you will admit that the Constitution doesn’t allow wiggle room for socialism. And if you read my posts, you will see that I do not think there are secret conspiracies afoot with the anti-war movement, there is just ignorance.

This being said, you seem to forget, or maybe haven’t thought about, the fact that it is the loyal Iraqi soldiers who are now killing “young Iraqi soldiers” who may disagree with the regimes current practices of rape, torture, and murder. And that it is in fact the “mothers and fathers… and little Iraqi kids” who are the ones being tortured and raped in front of the scientists and soldiers and general public to make them do Saddams bidding. It isn’t that this will happen if we invade. It is that it won’t stop until we do. Iraq has been at war for over thirty years, it is time it ended. Not only for the sensibilities of mankind, but for the stability of the region. Do you think of this torture, rape, maiming, and blackmail “as a ‘job’ that has to have a time limit?” I do.

You asked a general question, “…do we really think Saddem could have a significant build up of weapons of mass destruction while the inspection team is over there?” Yes. You also stated that “It would be a) a whole lot cheaper than war and, more importantly, b) not cost any lives.” Wrong. Given Saddam’s track record, it doesn’t take God’s infinite knowledge of past events to “forecast” that Saddam will strike again. I can make this educated guess myself. And that this will cost the world community more money and lives then rather than what will be spent and lost now, is again... common sense. If anything, having even 12,000 inspectors in Iraq would only slow Saddam down momentarily. This is a gamble that the United States cannot afford.

When my son gets a book report, the teacher does not not put a time limit on when it is due. And if my son is considering being disobedient, the thought of corporal punishment is a decisive factor in guiding his rejection of said actions. And while you may attribute “love” as being the most important aspect of God, I believe that it is justice. Because it is in His justice that God doles out love and/or punishment, not one in exclusion to the other. Love is the end result of His justice, as is punishment. It isn’t that “God is love,” it is that “God is just.”

Did you watch the video link I posted? Maybe you could answer the questions he asks in it as part of coming to terms with Iraq…
http://www.brain-terminal.com/articles/video/peace-protest.html
Must have DSL, or comparable.

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