Apparently, Bush’s state of the union address, Powell’s presentation today, and the past year and a half of spin can’t sell the war to the everyone.
The UK’s foreign secretary gave strong backing to the Washington line, but the other three key Council members – China, France and Russia, all said the inspectors should be given more time.
That doesn’t count Germany…. regardless… My questions to them, not that they have much of a voice on a global scale, are this:
- Are you going to profit from the results of a post-war, democratic Iraq?
- Are you going to seek lucrative contracts for repair and parts for oil refinery equipment?
- Will you move quickly to benefit from a massive rebuilding of all infrastructures?
- Will you be the first nation to be awarded that first batch of oil at the new, improved market rate?
- Will you lay down the lives of your countrymen to have the right to these benefits?
- Will your taxpayer shoulder the burden of what will be (and already has been) a multi-billion dollar effort?
I’m still opposed to the war on a personal level. I still can’t support a sitting U.S. president telling the world the evils of another nation that I cannot see for myself. However, my opposition to U.S. involvement in the middle east comes from personal experience, a distinct mistrust for the current administration and it’s past connections. My regard for the war and the Bush administration does not come from a bland and loosely supported liberal sentiment of anti-war rhetoric.
Despite what polls show, even our own here at paxtonland, despite national world opinion about the “right and wrong” of a war with Iraq. I’m sick at the thought of Iraqi children suffering more than they already have. I am loathe to see American lives placed in peril at the direction of a distrustful bunch of politicians, business leaders, and treacherous attorneys, Colin Powell excluded.