Pax20@... wrote: > >Charles+ > >The point may be that President Bush did point out that Sadam had indeed >"thumbed his nose" at the U.N. And that to me is adequate reason to call >for a "put up or shut up" situation. > >President Bush's concern that Iraq has or is producing weapons of mass >destruction certainly must have some very firm basis to force him to take >the stand that he has. Sometimes "the need to know" factor has to be >employed. > >Like you, I believe that God will indeed bring good out of this evil crisis >and our prayers should be that we become part of the solution, not part of >the problem. > >God bless +chd ---------------------------------------- +chd Thank you for writing. I agree with your first statement to some extent, but we should be aware there are UN resolutions we have not observed, so it is difficult for us to be overly pious in that forum. I have to respectfully disagree with the second sentence. The point of drawing a comparison between how our Ambassador to the UN handled the Cuban missle crisis and how our President presented his case shows that we are in a "need to know" situation. When the US Ambassador faced the Soviet Union's Kruschev at the UN the world knew that the Soviets had weapons of mass destruction. Yet, our Ambassador felt it necessary to produce proof they were being exported to this Hemisphere so that the American people and the world would see that the Cuban blockade was justified and that there was a real threat. In that case we presented incontrovertible proof to which the world and the American people were entitled because they needed to know. In the present case, an ad hominem argument and allegations were presented but no proof. If there is a firm basis, every American has a right to know what it is before we send our children to war, and the world has a right to know before an imprimature is put on our actions. In the Philippines, our eyes in the sky were able to track the movement of a pizza (infra red detection) that led to the capture of terrorists a few days ago. Surely with the many eyes in the skies we have had over Iraq since 1990 we should have something more than allegations. We see the movements of the missles, tanks, and aircraft, and bomb hell out of them at every provocation. That is proper. Where is the smoking gun, or smoking pizza that justifies an invasion, a land war, and a regime change? Charles _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx