Bombs over Baghdad?

Each day, President Bush is moving our country closer to an unnecessary war. Each day, the trumpets of war sound in order to rally this country and its allies against Iraq, a war that the majority of Americans either oppose or are unsure of its necessity. Despite the dissent among the populace of this country (just check this campus as an example) and among our allies and the United Nations, Dubya is marching us headlong into all-out war against Iraq and against all common sense. Dubya is convinced that another Gulf War is the solution to a myriad of problems plaguing the world today, but this end-all solution might be nothing more than the match that starts off a powder keg of destruction. America should not go to war with Iraq, even though Dubya and his cronies are promoting it as the only feasible option.\nThe U.S. got what it claimed it wanted. U.N. weapons inspectors have just been recently allowed into Iraq for the first time in years. These constant eyes have, since the end of the first Gulf War, made sure that the Iraqi government is no longer producing any weapons of mass destruction and those it did have were destroyed. If Dubya's policy was to remove any threat of mass destruction from the Saddam Hussein's hands, then he succeeded in his goals.\nExcept when the Iraqi government unconditionally let these inspectors back in, the United States government claimed it was "a tactical step…in avoiding strong U.N. Security Council action." In other words, the White House felt that they were able to judge Iraq's motives better than they themselves could, and that Iraq wasn't being honest when they agreed to the U.N.'s demands. \nScott Ritter, a former U.N. weapons inspector spent five years in Iraq investigating the disarmament process and searching for Iraq's "weapons of mass destruction." In his testimony to end the economic sanctions on Iraq, he simply stated "…when you judge Iraq's current weapons of mass destruction capabilities today, they have none." The weapons inspectors allowed back into the country are there to show whether or not there are any chemical or biological weapons in Iraq.\nMost of the U.S.'s allies are siding with Ritter and the U.N. weapons inspectors. Only Tony Blair of Great Britain believes what the U.S. is doing is right, and even then, his own country does not support all-out war with Iraq. Why is Dubya so convinced that Iraq is worth attacking? \nIs it because of their supposed weapons of mass destruction? Pakistan has nuclear capabilities and many al Qaeda refugees fled there after the Taliban fell in Afghanistan, yet there is no cry for war against Pakistan. Is it Saddam Hussein himself? There is no possible way to defend what this man has done previously to his people and those around him, but plenty of other countries suffer from massive civil rights violations, and the U.S. is not involving themselves with them.\nJust take a moment and think about it. Dubya Bush is an oil man from an oil family. Dick Cheney is an oil man from an oil corporation. Iraq is a member of OPEC, which supplies the western world with oil. Iraq holds 112 billion barrels of oil, the second largest oil reserve in the world. But with an unstable dictator leading Iraq against the U.S., it's almost impossible for the oil-hungry to get their, well, oily little hands on it. If only there was a pro-U.S. government set up in Iraq to facilitate the transfer of said oil reserves into the U.S.'s hands…