Making The Case For Regime Change In Iraq

[Terri]

By Carol Devine-Molin
January 20, 2003
GOPUSA Opinion

As our troops head out to the Persian Gulf region and the US and its allies get ready to rumble with Saddam Hussein, the antiwar movement, also known as the "Peace at Any Price" crowd, is orchestrating demonstrations with alacrity, both on American soil and abroad. Certainly, with war on the horizon and vociferous criticism abounding, it's time that President Bush confronts the sophistry of the antiwar naysayers and invidious smear-mongers, and builds an unequivocal case for regime change in Iraq. The current administration must underscore that it has fully cooperated with the UN process, and is not going off pell-mell in a frenzy to oust this rogue regime. Despite the recent media focus on war dissenters, polling still indicates that about two-thirds of the public supports the disarming of the Iraqi regime, even if it requires a military action to overthrow Saddam Hussein.

In reality, much has already been disseminated regarding the growing threat posed by Saddam Hussein through a process of "rolling disclosure", which amounts to intermittent revelations during the past year by various sources. For instance, over the course of time, many Americans became aware that the "oil for food program" was terribly abused by Iraq and resulted in its ability to import prohibited military technologies from nations such as China, France and Germany. And, Iraq's presidential palaces are reputed to have underground bunkers that cloak weaponry, as do mobile units (described as Winnebagos with refrigeration) that conceal elements of biological warfare. On the Fox News Channel, one terrorism expert estimated that Iraq only requires about six or seven Winnebagos to house its entire biological warfare stock, which even came as a surprise to me as a diligent consumer of news. Heck, it's also come to light that Saddam stashed outlawed weaponry and ancillary components in private residences in Baghdad. Undeniably, Americans have learned a considerable amount regarding Iraq, but whether this information goes to the heart of the war issue is another matter entirely.

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[pRIMrose]

IMO, this problem has only one solution ~ we have to get rid of Saddam Hussein. All the meaningless "warm and fuzzy" rhetoric that is being spewed by Blix is showing us he is more interested in pleasing Iraq and Saddam than doing what he was hired to do. Inspect. He was not hired to search and find. It is Iraq's obligation to supply the information and the UN to verify it.

Now, anyone with at least a 50 IQ knows that Saddam is not going to give up or give in. He's had twelve years to plot and plan with at least five of them without any type inspections whatsoever. He is a master of "lie and deny" and obstruction. He has the UN dangling on his "puppet" strings and has no intention of cooperating. Never has, never will.

So that leaves only one choice ~ he has to be eliminated ~ the regime must be changed and that means war. In the end he will destroy not only himself, but he'll try to take his whole country down with him. He is a madman ~ a sociopathic killer. You can't reason with this type mentality.

This game we are playing with the UN and others is just that ~ a very dangerous game. The longer we are drawn out, the more dangerous it becomes.

That's why I truly believe that Bush has every intention of using military force ~ you don't send hundreds of thousands of troops into an area if you aren't serious. And I have every confidence, he has more information than I do ~ or the pundits. Loose lips sink ships, and we know he runs a tight ship.