Make up your mind Mr. Powell!
Now that it turned out that Iraq's WMD was just a sham and a big lie to prepare the American public opinion to follow the leader, the US leaders are left with explaining what happened and why they lied although it seems that to some Americans it has been ok that they were lied to. After all, only an "insignificant" number of people, only at least 10,000 people (who were not even American) have been killed so far as a result of these lies. To them, the number and the victims are not important enough to warrant criticizing "gods" of the nation; the leaders.
US Secretary of State, Colin Powell, made a fool of himself when last February he presented the UN Security Council a 10 year old university thesis as an evidence of Iraq's WMD. He then put the US case to the United Nations Security Council, saying he was offering "facts and conclusions based on solid evidence". Were are those "solid evidence" Mr. Powell was so sure about?
Things have changed now; it is clear, even to dumbest people, that there were no such things as Iraq's WMD. Now, US leaders particularly Mr. Powell are forced to admit that the belief that Iraq had these weapons had made the case for war stronger and added that he did not know if he would have recommended an invasion if this belief had proved unfounded. He now says that he is not sure he would have pushed for an invasion of Iraq if he knew that it had no stockpile of banned weapons: "It was the stockpile that presented the final little piece that made it more of a real and present danger and threat to the region and to the world. [The] absence of a stockpile changes the political calculus; it changes the answer you get." Then Mr. Powell contradicts himself by saying that "he believed history would judge that going to war against Saddam Hussein had been the right thing to do" (Click here for the link). Make up your mind Mr. Powell, would you go to war if you knew that Iraq had no WMD or not?
Well, even if we believe the current US administration is consisted of some ethical and clean leaders who care about human lives (sounds more like a joke), at least they fail in the competency test: As a result of your miscalculations, Mr. Powell, at least 10,000 people (none of them less valuable than you and me) have been killed, a country have been occupied, international laws are broken and replaced by the laws of the jangle, UN's authority has been severely damaged, poverty in Iraq is as never before, Iraq's state-owned industries are being sold out against the will of Iraqi people, your own soldiers are being killed everyday and.... all because of your "miscalculations". Why should the world people suffer because of your miscalculations? Why should you not be held accountable for your "mistakes" that have affected so many lives in the world?
US Secretary of State, Colin Powell, made a fool of himself when last February he presented the UN Security Council a 10 year old university thesis as an evidence of Iraq's WMD. He then put the US case to the United Nations Security Council, saying he was offering "facts and conclusions based on solid evidence". Were are those "solid evidence" Mr. Powell was so sure about?
Things have changed now; it is clear, even to dumbest people, that there were no such things as Iraq's WMD. Now, US leaders particularly Mr. Powell are forced to admit that the belief that Iraq had these weapons had made the case for war stronger and added that he did not know if he would have recommended an invasion if this belief had proved unfounded. He now says that he is not sure he would have pushed for an invasion of Iraq if he knew that it had no stockpile of banned weapons: "It was the stockpile that presented the final little piece that made it more of a real and present danger and threat to the region and to the world. [The] absence of a stockpile changes the political calculus; it changes the answer you get." Then Mr. Powell contradicts himself by saying that "he believed history would judge that going to war against Saddam Hussein had been the right thing to do" (Click here for the link). Make up your mind Mr. Powell, would you go to war if you knew that Iraq had no WMD or not?
Well, even if we believe the current US administration is consisted of some ethical and clean leaders who care about human lives (sounds more like a joke), at least they fail in the competency test: As a result of your miscalculations, Mr. Powell, at least 10,000 people (none of them less valuable than you and me) have been killed, a country have been occupied, international laws are broken and replaced by the laws of the jangle, UN's authority has been severely damaged, poverty in Iraq is as never before, Iraq's state-owned industries are being sold out against the will of Iraqi people, your own soldiers are being killed everyday and.... all because of your "miscalculations". Why should the world people suffer because of your miscalculations? Why should you not be held accountable for your "mistakes" that have affected so many lives in the world?
posted by Faramin | 12:49 p.m.
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