:: Driving me Crazy... ::

:: Thursday, March 20, 2003 ::

And so it begins. American, British and Australian forces have engaged in a war we've all seen coming for months, only they've done it without the backing of the rest of the world via the United Nations. This scares me. For a long time I've been asking "when Bush does go to war (that much was inevitable) should Britain stand with him or against him?" It seems Tony has decided to side with military might rather than international legitimacy. Had the United Nations backed the action, I would have supported it. But if it's not supported by the UN, don't we have the invasion of a sovreign state by an outside force? Wasn't that precisely why Bush Senior went into Kuwait in 1991, to repel such an invasion by Saddam Hussein? How is this different?

The question that scares me than all the others is "Who's next?". Once Dubya has made his point and levelled Baghdad, what will he do? Pyongyang is I think a greater threat, so why haven't UN inspectors gone to North Korea?

The US administration has always stated that its aim in Iraq is 'regime change'. Will this be the reason American tanks roll into Paris, in a few years time? What will Britain do then? Will we be complaining to our Senator, and hoping the President listens?

:: Gary 20.3.03 [+] ::
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