Should the U.S. invade Iraq? (all opinions welcome)
 

Okay, ladies and gents, I am making a speech in my speech class about why the U.S. should wage war against Iraq in a few weeks and I would like to hear your opinions on if you agree or not. I think the U.S. should invade Iraq in order to:

A) Remove Saddam Hussein from power

B) Inspect Iraq (very closely) once more to find weaps. of m. destruction, including biological, chemical, and nuclear (not likely), and destroy any that are found.

C) To protect Americans and any of our allies from any more acts of terror that Hussein has been involved in.

It has been believed that Hussein had a factor in the WTC 93' bombing and the OKC bombing. This is just theory but there are many incriminating pieces of evidence that Hussein and/or Iraq had a hand in these two acts. Of course we all know Hussein was behind most of the car and embassy bombings in the past.

If So-Damn-Insane does in fact have weaps. of m. destruction, then I believe he will indefinitely try to attack the U.S. He has not done so in the past because all of the previous SCUD missiles he had in the past did not have the ability to travel from Iraq to the U.S. I don't know if Iraq has any nuclear-capable submarines, but I would have to guess that he doesn't, otherwise he would have attacked.

Let's say that Hussein has been telling the truth and does not have any WMD in his possession. If we invade Iraq and find out that he has no WMD, then yes it is VERY bad publicity on the U.S.'s part and I think that's why we have not done so already. But think about it, if we assume that Hussein has no WMD, then we are putting millions of American citizen's lives at grave danger. Hussein is evil enough to want to kill millions of innocents. Hell, he has already done that to his own people. I think that's pretty sick, and I sure don't wanna be a wuss about it and not take action to prevent Iraq from causing any more problems.

Finally, I would like it if everybody expressed their opinions on this matter seriously without any degrading of the U.S. or Canada or England or any country and without flaming anybody for their own opinions. I wrote this because this is work, and I take my work seriously, so no flaming please.

I believe we should, Saddam needs to be removed. I seriously believe he is a true danger to the world.

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The thing is, we now know N. Korea HAS WMD. Why is no one paying attention to them? They are part of the "Axis of Evil", but Bush has said nothing abot them. Why just Iraq? I doubt Hussein will try anything without being first provoked. If the US invades, I believe he will unleash all he can. If they don't, I don't think he has any real way to attack. His current missles can reach as far a Israle. What about N. Korea? They could be further along in their production of WMD, and i'm sure the koreans have more technology, money to spend on military since ALL money goes towards it, and are more capeable of striking at America.

I don;t understand why N. Korea gets off, while everyone wants to kill saddam.

Until proof is brought fourth that Saddam is a true threat, invasion is not acceptable. An invasion could be compared to Germany invading France, or Iraq invading Kuwait. It just doesn't make sense.

Maybe we should get some sold proof on Iraq, and look into the korean situation. The koreans seem to be a lot easier to talk to. Would the US go for an invasion of Korea? I doubt it. Casualties in another korean war would be 10 or 100 times the amount of iraq. Perhaps that is why the government ignores koreaand focuses on iraq.

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True Ninty, N. Korea does pose a threat (IMO) and the U.S. should deal with them, but my speech is just on Iraq, so I did not mention N. Korea. If the U.S. removes Hussein with military force, many other neighboring (neighbouring) countries will also benefit, as innocent Arabs have been slayed by his command (as previously stated).

Do I think the U.S. should attack right now? No. I think the U.S. should attempt for the final time to negotiate with Hussein, but as we know Hussein will not comply with our's or the U.N.'s requests. He has lied time and time again about what he has and what he doesn't have. He continually tries to sway from U.N. inspections.

Wage war on a country "suspected" of having weapons of mass destruction, and who is suspected of being involved in several terrorist acts? Right. That's a helluva good plan folks.

Lets get serious here, Saddam Hussein controls a large portion of the worlds oil reserves. Instead of investing billions in alternative forms of energy, we're going the tried and true route of getting our national threats out of the way.

Yea Saddam is a threat - he's so much of a threat that he was trounced in the Gulf War, with only a SINGLE American casualtie, and is now working with the UN to try and get support to keep America out of it's business and succumbing to American pressure.

I'm a conservative-Republican but lets get real here, we all know what this is about and it isnt about protecting the American people from someone who so far has only been reumoured about "endorsing" Terrorism.

Actually Ed, America lost 367 Soldiers, Marines, and Aviators.

Iraq has never made an unprovoked attack against the USA.
The only time they fought was Kuwait, a war where america had no right to be there.

The fact is simple america wouldnt delcare war in ww2 because it was europe's problem (untill they got attacked)

yet Iraq attacks Kuwait, somethien that has nothing to do with america aside from the american greed for oil and boom the yanks are at war with Iraq.

Hell go for it then you can really find out it Saddam has nuclear, bio and chemical weapons. first hand!

and by the way. doesnt it seem like major hypocracy that america will attack iraq for "allegedly" having weapons of mass destcrution when its a known and admitted fact that america is constantly producing weapons of the same and greater power. I say the UN should attack USA for making weapons of mass destruction.

Neighbours benefiting form it I doubt very much.

Turkey said it had lost 40 billion dollars since the gulf war because the amount of trucks crossing the border dropped from 2000 to 200. All the countries around Iraq get oil form them. If war starts it’s going to make it a lot harder to get oil. There are a lot of countries that will not support a war because of the trade between their country and Iraq. Many of the people in Iraq don't want a regime change anyway. These people have grown up with him all their life. Not everyone welcomes change.

As for me mentioning N. Korea, I was just making the point that the two countries are not that different in the view of the US but they are definitely being treated like it. Doesn't make sense.

I once read that China had something to do with Osama Bin Laden once. ;) You guys should check out a very goofy book called Unrestricted Warfare.