“War is inevitable,” said president Franklin Delano Roosevelt after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor.
This statements sounds more and more like the statements coming out of our President Bush’s mouth lately.
The American people know that George W. Bush has a personal vendetta against Saddam Hussein. They know that Saddam has built weapons of mass destruction for years, and that he treats the people of Iraq like slaves, keeping them in poverty and ignorance of the world revolving around them. We know he funds terrorsits groups like al-Qaeda. And if the United States pushes Saddam, he will not back down.
FDR was right, war is inevitable.
But what will happen to our men while they fight for our safety?
As President Hoover put it,”Older men declare war, but it is youth that must fight and die.”
The UN weapons inspectors have found 12 empty chemical war-heads. This will not be a traditional war. Our men will not only be dodging bullets, missiles and machine guns, but hoping they don’t run into the small pox virus.
War includes blood shed.
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants,” said Thomas Jefferson.
I thought we were already at war. I thought we were “going to win this war on terror.” We seem to have overlooked what we are really fighting for here. I think we should fight for revenge first. I think we should make Osama bin Laden pay dearly for the attacks on 9/11. Then turn our sights to Saddam Hussein.
The United States is getting ahead of itself.
I agree with taking out Saddam Hussein but I don’t think it is going to be easy.
Let’s face it, people around the world hate us. They think we are arrogant and too proud — to them we are a nation of spoiled-brats.
And what if Saddam does just give up his nation (which isn’t going to happen)?
The people aren’t going to welcome us with open arms. If we go to war they will really hate us for being the cause of destruction to their homeland. This really isn’t a winning situation.
The Iraqi people do need some relief but why hasn’t anyone else in the world tried to help? France won’t even talk to the United States about the possibility of war.
And on the homefront? Will it stimulate our economy and bring us out of recession?
Should we practice an “eye for an eye?” And when we have poked out everyone’s eyes that stand in the way of our happiness, what then?
We can’t just live in denial that war is coming. But we can’t just sit back and let it come straight into our living rooms. As Woodrow Wilson put it, “America cannot be like an ostrich with its head in the sand.”
Eventually Saddam Hussein will be run out of Iraq. We in America normally get what we want. The real challenge is how Iraq and America recover from this conflict. Will our lands be stronger? Will our children have a better future? Will our nations live in peace?
No one knows.
“Admittedly there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk is in appeasement,” said Ronald Reagan.
As we prepare for a war all of us might not agree with, let us reflect on the words of Martin Luther King Jr.
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction … the chain reaction of evil — hate begetting hate, wars produce more wars — must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

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