i really don't know where i stand on this whole war thing.
i am anti-saddam, but also anti-war. i am against the steps that the american and british governments have taken to ensure this war goes ahead. i feel like it's being done less because saddam is a threat, otherwise they would have done it sooner, and more to prove a point. i feel that the links between iraq and terrorism are weak, but that the actions of saddam on his people are inexcuseable. his forces murder, rape, burn, destroy, torture, kidnap and more on a daily basis, and i don't want it to continue.
i just don't like how this is happening. the way things are going, bush is going to have to go onto bigger things and keep on fighting, keep on being aggressive to show he isn't backing down, and blair will follow because he believes we need america.
i don't feel particularly proud of my country, and unlike america in america there isn't a huge sense of patriotism here, so i don't feel ashamed to say it. i don't want any of our forces to get hurt or killed, but i don't want that to happen to any other countries either. i don't like what america is doing, and i don't like that our country is going along with it.
i don't feel like protests are going to help, but i'm glad that so many people are showing that they don't want this. this is a very unpopular move, and it will go down in history as such.
i know that saddam has many weapons, chemical or otherwise, and that he does pose a threat but i don't believe that it's right to march in and do things by force. technically, blair and bush can be considered war criminals.
does the fact that saddam does worse than us make the bad things we do better? i know people who feel very threatened, who want something to happen to stop this and to remove him from power, to destroy his weapons, but did they feel this way five years ago? a year ago? six months ago?
i just don't know what to think. troops are going to go in, and they are going to kill people. some of them will be killed in the attempt. we will storm in and try and kill saddam hussain and if it happens america will decide what's best for the country, and probably benefit.
i am not particularly anti-america in general, i'd like to live there, but it's so big and so powerful i sometimes feel like it's thinking with it's muscles. it's becoming an agressor.
i don't want to put down america. i joke about bush, and freedom fries but there's a lot i like. i have my opinions, the same as everyone else. i can sit back and say what i don't like about the country because i don't live there, i'm removed from the huge patriotism that seems to show everywhere around there. i live in a country which has faults, and i can see them too.
i want this war to be over as soon as possible. it is a bad idea.
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