I really don't care if other countries support us, or not.

It bothers me that most countries in the world think that we are at least partly to blame for Sept. 11.

I'm not sure whether or not it matters if Iraq helped or was part of the Al Qaeda plot to crash 4 airplanes at buildings in the U.S.

What matters is that Saddam Hussein supports terrorism against the U.S., he tried to assassinate President Bush #38 (and failed) when #38 went to Kuwait, he is failing to live up to his agreements with the U.S. in surrendering after the Persian Gulf War and with U.N. resolutions relating to not making weapons of mass destructions - biological and nuclear weapons. He has developed and used biological weapons against the Kurds and continues to deny that it ever happened to this day.

The whole world is against us going after Saddam Hussein not because they think he is not a madman, but because they are against U.S. unilateralism. We are the only superpower left in the world, and they are afraid of a U.S. that acts on its own without the U.N.'s approval.

The rest of the nations in the world remind me a lot of how Europe handled Hitler, make peace treaties with him, negotiating with him, yada yada yada. Hitler was a madman who couldn't be negotiated with, and thank God for Winston Churchill, who believed Hitler needed to be destroyed.

If Saddam Hussein is successful in building a crude nuclear bomb (and everyone seems to believe he's very close), we've lost. We've lost the initiative. It will be nearly impossible to attack Iraq or control Saddam Hussein because he's stupid enough to use nuclear weapons.

You know, having character, and talking about your values and beliefs is easy, until your values are tested. If you say you are against adultery, and then go ahead and commit adultery, you may say that you don't believe in adultery, but when you were tested, you failed. You showed your wife and the world that you didn't hold your values dearly.

It's the same thing with Iraq. It's not always easy or popular to do what's right, but you go ahead and do what's right anyway. Even if everyone says or thinks your wrong. That is when the rubber hits the pavement.

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Paul S.

2001 E430, Bourdeaux Red, Oyster interior.
79,200 miles.

1973 280SE 4.5, 170,000 miles. 568 Signal Red, Black MB Tex. "The Red Baron".