How do you know? Are you in the intelligence loop?
This war would be waged against Iraq...Iraq is a nation of people...THEY will feel the brunt of this war, not Hussein.
How do you know? Do you know something about our CinC's war plans which the rest of us do not?
Hussein is our problem.....he's like the knuckle dragging bully from the other block. Neither you nor I would take baseball bats to his neighbors [...]
I don't get it. You seem to be trying to equate ousting the dictator of some people with "taking baseball bats to" them. Do you think the people of Iraq like living under Hussein?
It is Hussein who needs the bat, not his people.
I agree. That's what we're gonna do. No?
So my protest, and that of many, many others I rallied with, isn't against war, it is against waging war on a nation of people when a simple assassination of one bully would do.
If it were so "simple" is there any doubt we would have done it?
Anyway, your objections seem reasonable, but they are ill-timed. Your objections only make sense if, after the war has started, it proves that we have killed a large number of Iraqi civilians to get to Hussein.
But how the heck do you know that will be the case?
Why not wait to see how the war turns out, and how we wage it, before you start whining about it? This is what I don't get; how can you whine about our methods of war before it's even started?
If the war is relatively painless, with relatively few civilian deaths, and Hussein is ousted, and the Iraqi people are happy, will you take everything back? If so, then what's the purpose of protesting now?
In short: instead of saying "Don't do it!", you should (if you were logical and consistent) be saying, "Ok, if you're gonna do it, at least do it right!"
If you said that, I could respect your position.