"When I say it is a disaster waiting to happen, I am not referring to deaths incurred during the war, I am referring to the what mismanagement of the current situation will bring about in the future"

My point was that every other dire prediction about this situation has not come to fruition. The environmental disasters, the refugees, the "urban battle", the half a million civilain deaths. The fact is you are just anti-american and will never see the positive side of anything we do.

"There is, for example, not a single mention by Rawnsley of the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who died as a direct result of the 12-year, medieval siege of Iraq conducted by America and backed by Britain - and enthusiastically by Blair."

Your quote conveniently ignores: 1. the reason for the sanctions; 2. the fact that most of the world backed them; 3. the fact that they could have easily been mitigated if Saddam did what the world asked, namely disarm; 4. they were designed to punish Saddam but not his people, however Saddam didn't give a fuck about his people and, probably with the duplicity of France, twisted the sanctions for personal gain through black market sales of oil.


"What would have happened if Adolf Hitler had triumphed in World War Two? Would this have turned his war into a just one? Let's assume that Hitler would have indicted his enemies at the Nuremberg war crimes court: Churchill for the terrible air raid on Dresden, Truman for dropping the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and Stalin for murdering millions in the Gulag camps. Would the historians have regarded this as a just war?"

If I understand your point correctly, you are equating Hitler's aggression with that of the US and Britain's against Iraq? If so, have you no sense of good and evil? Of right and wrong?

"A war that ends with the victory of the aggressor is worse than a war that ends with their defeat. It is more destructive, both morally and physically"

The aggressor did not win. I view Iraq as the aggressor not us. We just didn't wait for them to use their aggression against us, but rather we enforced what the world reequired 12 years ago.

"As to the rest of your post, I've heard it all before on CNN and it sounded like total propaganda bullshit then too. Proof. Show me the proof."

Are you talking about finding wmd? If so, you may be bright, but you're really naive. If you cared about learning the truth you would have enough sense to be patient.