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People like this do not have the IQ to realise that as soon as Sadam Hussain is toppled, the people of Iraq will face a promising prosperous future, because dispite his dictatorship keeping all the oil money to himself, Iraq is a very rich country. Its just this maniac in control who is pushing all the funding into warfare instead of health + food programs.[/quote:830a1]

I truly hope so and as fast as is possible.

If that is the result, then I will be happy, despite any losses along the way. But there is no guarantee of this happening.

There are no guarantees in war.

It's not like I'm completely and deliberately ignorant to this war, it does affect me otherwise I'd not post here about it. I have feelings about it but I'm not educated in the issues at hand enough to feel I can say anything for, or against it.

You do see my point in what we disagree, though. You dislike that some groups of people will sit on the fence but I firmly believe that, not only do they have the right to do that, it is not a bad thing to do.

Everyone has to make decisions in their lives based on what they believe. It doesn't mean it's the right decision.

Put this into the current context and you could say the French are wrong for not supporting the war because Iraq could sell WOMD or they could instigate more future terrorist attacks.

At the same time the French may be right to stay put as this war may result in horrible attrocities and end up with no positive result anyway.

You cannot firmly say that this war will have a happy ending (indeed, it's still relavent that in war no one wins, no matter the result). You can also say that if there is no action taken (whether through the military, or through diplomacy) then the problem is unlikely to go away.

I truly hope it does have a happy ending and it does go away. If it does then I imagine my viewpoint on Blair and Bush will change considerably, but then that's public opinion for you.

Blair still has a shitload of issues to solve in his own country and this war will not help one single bit in acheiving the solving of those issues.

I just hope it's as quick a war as it can be.

I don't have a great deal of conviction in that hope though.

Until that lack of conviction is categorically proven wrong there is no way I'll be convinced to be happy (or supportive) in any way, shape or form that this war is happening.

I'm glad we can agree to disagree biggrin: