Well, it will not be long now before people, regular folks like you and I, start asking the inevitable question, "What is this war with Iraq all about?" Problem is by then it will be too late. By the time the average American examines this war with anything close to a critical eye, hundreds possibly thousands of people will have already died.

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Plainly put the president says we need to invade a sovereign nation in order to take away their guns. That is what disarm means, after all.

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Bush also continues to claim Hussein's reluctance to allow the return of U.N. weapons inspectors as further proof of Iraq's threat to the world. Yet, on September 16th when Iraq agreed to allow the unconditional return of weapons inspectors, the White House "dismissed the offer as nothing more than a tactical move" according to the Associated Press. White House spokesman Scott McClellan was quoted by the AP as follows:

"This is not a matter of inspections. It is about disarmament of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and the Iraqi regime's compliance with all other [U.N.] Security Council resolutions."

Obviously, President Bush and his staff care little whether their demands are met or not, even as their rhetoric declares otherwise. The government intends to treat the world the same way it treats its own citizens when it comes to gun control, only worse. Bush is making it plain that he will not be content with mere inspections that may verify what Iraqi leaders have said all along, that Iraq has no weapons of mass destruction. After all, to verify that no such weapons actually exist ruins a perfectly good war that would take care of the president's father's unfinished business.

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