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The Unasked Questions About Iraq and Saddam Hussein
Still waiting for the obvious questions to be asked — only to see the interviewer ignore the obvious and continue with his scripted questions? Unfortunately, the press — who should be asking the skeptical questions for us — is little more than an adjunct of the government, accepting political pronouncements as gospel.

Assertion: You can't do business with dictators.
Question: Then why is George Bush enlisting the support of dictators in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Pakistan, and other countries to make war against Iraq?

Assertion: I trust my President and my government.
Question: After the Gulf War, it turned out that most of the reasons given for going to war had been false — no Iraqi troops massed on the Saudi Arabia border, no babies ripped from incubators by Iraqi troops in Kuwaiti hospitals. Most of the same people who were in charge then are in the current administration. Why should we trust them again?

Do You Trust the Liars?
We know that politicians lie. They've lied about enough matters to fill an encyclopedia. They've lied to us about Social Security, about the projected costs of Medicare, about surpluses that never existed, and about the Gulf War. The fact that we're now talking about national security shouldn't cause us to have more faith in government and politicians. Quite the contrary: because it's our lives that are at stake, we should be more skeptical then ever.

Assertion: Saddam Hussein even tried to assassinate President Bush's father. Our national honor demands that we unseat this evil man.
Question: Don't forget what happened when the Austrian government tried to avenge the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand by the Serbs in 1914. The world was plunged into World War I — a holocaust that caused the deaths of millions of innocent people. How do you know that won't happen in the current situation?

Assertion: The Iraqi people will be far better off after we unseat Saddam Hussein.
Question: On what do you base that expectation? Have you noticed what's been going on in Afghanistan since the U.S. government lost interest and turned its attention to Iraq?

Assertion: Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction. You can't allow such a dictator to have such weapons.
Question: If that's the case, why didn't America threaten Leonid Brezhnev of the Soviet Union the way it's threatening Saddam Hussein now? Or why isn't America threatening other nations with weapons of mass destruction? Why should Saddam Hussein disarm, when no other country is disarming?

Assertion: President Bush is right, but he hasn't made his case to the American people. He needs to make the evidence against Hussein public.
Question: Since President Bush has been claiming for over a year to have evidence that he hasn't revealed, why are you so sure there is any evidence?

Assertion: We know Saddam Hussein used chemical and biological weapons during the war against Iran.
Question: Then why did the Reagan administration support him so wholeheartedly in that war?

posted by Hal 8:16 AM