A few reasons against the pre-emptive war
1. How can you start a war to prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction? If you war the only thing that will happen is that you are sure they will be used, if they exist at all. If you want to disarm Iraq you will have to let the inspections go on. Apply pressure, though. If Saddam(who might just be dead according to a deserted 'Clone'(only in looks) of him. He has cancer according to this person) does not cooperate enough you might consider waging war.
2. The US wants to use nuclear weapons. This is against international law and the UN.
3. Around Iraq live a billion muslims. Installing a puppet government or at least the temporary US government that is being planned, you are going to make quite a lot of them quite mad. Terrorism will worsen extremely and the middle east will become even more unstable. Fundamentalism will rise. You might end up with a worse situation then before you had the war. What do you think that will happen to a US country in a anti-US region?
4. Pre-emptive strikes are against international law.
5. Projections: 200.000 to half a million deaths and a few million refugees. This will cause even more instability in the region.
6. If the US is allowed to pre-emptively attack countries possibly without UN permission, aren't all other countries allowed to?
7. It seems funny to me to wage war to avoid one. They say offense is the best kind of defense, but aren't you doing the same thing as you're accusing Iraq of?
8. If the attack happens outside of the UN, this will become a major letdown for the UN. Not that the UN hasn't already always been boycotted by the US who only use it for their own good and preferrably don't even pay the contribution..
9. In Iraq live hundreds of thousands of fled Kurds. They want their own country, Turkey would rather have them dead then allowing something like that near their own country. Turkey is a possible ally in the war against Iraq. This could become a major catastrophe.
10. Sharon could deport the Palestinians now all cameras are pointing in a different direction. Several Israeli experts have said he *is* planning such a thing.
11. The islamist world will only become more self-centered, and progress will cease.
12. The western world runs on oil. If we attack Iraq they might just set fire to these fields, starting a deep economic recession.
13. What happened to Afghanistan? First it gets bombed by the Americans, now Bush doesn't even think of sending them funding. The entire country is a wreckage and coincedentally the leader of the country, that was suggested by the US, is a former high oil-guy. The Afghan people have democracy still in their memory, the Iraqian people have suffered because of Saddam for ages. Democracy can't be established by the US government the US is planning to install for one year, with the intention of installing a 'democracy'. Oh, and remember the Islam anti-American people? Democracy won't stand like this just yet. It requires a long process.
2. The US wants to use nuclear weapons. This is against international law and the UN.
3. Around Iraq live a billion muslims. Installing a puppet government or at least the temporary US government that is being planned, you are going to make quite a lot of them quite mad. Terrorism will worsen extremely and the middle east will become even more unstable. Fundamentalism will rise. You might end up with a worse situation then before you had the war. What do you think that will happen to a US country in a anti-US region?
4. Pre-emptive strikes are against international law.
5. Projections: 200.000 to half a million deaths and a few million refugees. This will cause even more instability in the region.
6. If the US is allowed to pre-emptively attack countries possibly without UN permission, aren't all other countries allowed to?
7. It seems funny to me to wage war to avoid one. They say offense is the best kind of defense, but aren't you doing the same thing as you're accusing Iraq of?
8. If the attack happens outside of the UN, this will become a major letdown for the UN. Not that the UN hasn't already always been boycotted by the US who only use it for their own good and preferrably don't even pay the contribution..
9. In Iraq live hundreds of thousands of fled Kurds. They want their own country, Turkey would rather have them dead then allowing something like that near their own country. Turkey is a possible ally in the war against Iraq. This could become a major catastrophe.
10. Sharon could deport the Palestinians now all cameras are pointing in a different direction. Several Israeli experts have said he *is* planning such a thing.
11. The islamist world will only become more self-centered, and progress will cease.
12. The western world runs on oil. If we attack Iraq they might just set fire to these fields, starting a deep economic recession.
13. What happened to Afghanistan? First it gets bombed by the Americans, now Bush doesn't even think of sending them funding. The entire country is a wreckage and coincedentally the leader of the country, that was suggested by the US, is a former high oil-guy. The Afghan people have democracy still in their memory, the Iraqian people have suffered because of Saddam for ages. Democracy can't be established by the US government the US is planning to install for one year, with the intention of installing a 'democracy'. Oh, and remember the Islam anti-American people? Democracy won't stand like this just yet. It requires a long process.