by Professor Brensec » Tue Mar 18, 2003 12:18 am
At the risk of prolonging a discussion that we have been warned can come to grief if not handled in a sensitive and considerate way, I need to say the following:
Firstly, thankyou to Fly2E fr your insights. I can only agree 100%.
I fear the prospect of war at any level for my countrymen and those of the US and UK. Also all the other UN nations which may take part if the UN council gives its' "blessing" by including the use of immediate force to disarm Hussein and to free the Iraqi people (the latter of which, there seems to be too liitle discussion among the powerful and mighty). After all, we are talking about an enslaved people in terms of housing, food, medical services and supplies and more (the least of which is not freedom) at the hands of a man who would gas his own, and environmentally destroy there own backyard out of sheer childish vindictiveness.
I have learnt that UN resolutions do NOT expire or become invalid over time (unless specifically negated by way of another resolution), so this being the case, I have also learnt that the UN member nations (includung the US, UK and Australia) already have the UN resolutions from twelve years ago to justify, legally and morally, continuing to pursue the necessary exercises undertaken in 1991.
If, and all things point towards it, war in the M.E. ends up being the result, are the antiwar proponents going to be at the docks and airbases to spit on those who return? We know they are capable of it, don't we?
Will it take 10 years to apologise, this time?
I hope not.
Our newspapers and television (at least in Sydney) is now featuring Armed Service personnel asking the general populace to understand that the freedom they have to protest and criticise has to be defended and they would, as fellow Australians, like to feel that their countrymen support them. Why is something so sad, necessary?
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