WAR is not an answer - 5 reasons against the Iraq war |
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This is not an open source matter, still we should care about it more than coding at the moment. Five good reasons against a war against Iraq. Read this and think about it.
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1. No blood for oil.
Many signs - for example the remarks of the US Secret Service CIA - show, that the US Government wants to ensure its access to the oil resources. According to "Eurosolar," Iraq holds the second largest oil deposit in the world - after Saudi Arabia. Those Reserves are 525 times larger than the recent annual output of oil. Because of this reason, the US-Government wants to replace the Iraqi dictator with a regime that is friendly (in the interests of US oil). Without a change in the regime, the USA wouldn't have control over the oil resources of the Iraq, as European and Russian oil companies made contracts with the Iraq years ago.
2. International law gets hurt.
With the doctrine of a preventive war of aggression, supported by the USA, the new American strategy of global dominance and military intervention without UN-order will be realized.
Thus, the principles of international law and the UN Charter of 1945, which both forbid wars of aggression, are hurt as never ever before.
Consequences:
In future, every country could appoint itself to the doctrine of preventive war with an attack to another country, while decorating itself with the cowardly protective sheet of ?counter terrorism? and 'preventive defense.'
3. No proof for danger of Iraq.
The US government justifies the necessity of a preventive war by saying that Iraq still owns mass destruction weapons and is in close contact with terror organizations. Saddam Hussein is a brutal dictator without doubt. But for those accusations, there is currently no proof.
Neither the capacity for production of mass destruction weapons was scientifically proven nor co-operation with Islamic terrorists, whom the rather non-religious Baath regime of Saddam has always kept a large distance.
4. A war has catastrophic results.
An intervention in Iraq will continue to heat up the numerous conflicts in the region and possibly force them to spiral out of control. The political situation east of Europe would be further destabilized, which would be a driving force for fundamentalist currents.
The danger of terrorist attacks would increase with it as well. In addition, supplies for the Iraqi people, which were already very low due to the UN Embargo, will be reduced down even more. In doing so, living conditions will lower in Iraq. Thousands of dead and injured civilians would be the result - due to fighting, hunger, and epidemic.
5. There are alternatives to a war.
The weapons inspectors offer the possibility of avoiding a war and of winning relative security over any means of mass destruction weapons. In combination with the already overdue abolition of the embargo, which hurts only the Iraqi population and not Hussein's regime, a peaceful solution of the conflict would offer new perspectives for the country. Above all, these would be for the people, who are not responsible for the policy and for the crimes of the regime. Just as urgent is a peace process for the entire region east of Europe, which would be the task of the United Nations and of the United States.
Free translation of the current issue of "Publik Forum: War is not an answer" - http://www.publik-forum.de/
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