War with Iraq?

Daryl DeBell writes: "Colin Powell is an able and generally trustworthy man, and I believe what he presented to the Security Council. It certainly supported the inference that Saddam still has the weapons he acknowledged having at the end of the Gulf War. However, it is not court-room evidence that he still has them. In any case he would be only one of many who do have such weapons. That is not the real or central question. While I believe he is quite capable of using them against anyone he chooses, he has not threatened us directly and has no means of his own to deliver them to us. He certainly could employ them against Israel, and I would expect him to do so if he is attacked; which might be another reason for us to desist. I also object to Bush's having hornswoggled Congress into giving him a blank check on starting a war. Congress's spineless submission is almost more reprehensible than Bush's heedless aggressiveness. In the meantime, the Constitutional provision for declaring war has evaporated. A person I know who is fluent in Arabic and has spent considerable time in Jordan, studying Jordanian politics believes that an Iraq war would destroy the Jordanian government and create chaos in the region, another serious reason to desist".

Ronald Hilton - 2/8/03