LETTER: Calls for peace irrational
Editor,
There have been many calls for and against this war, but the most vocal have been the loud, irrational, and idiotic calls of the supposed peace movement that either says that Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction or that the United Nations was doing its job, and we should have let them do it.
Recent events shed some light on the most vocal of protests.
MSNBC.com reported on April 4 that Saddam was lying about obeying the U.N. resolutions concerning his weapons, the Al Samoud missiles, the supply of chemical uniforms and the suspicious, white powder found with anti-chemical drugs and instructions on how to use chemical weapons. Also, Marine units testing drinking water found cyanide and mustard agents in the Euphrates River.
After the disarmament myth, the peace movement’s principle illusion was that while Saddam may have been a dictator, he was not a terrorist and certainly not involved with al-Qaida.
The capture and destruction of al-Qaida’s training camp in Northern Iraq irrefutably shows that Iraq is part of the axis of evil that includes al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden.
MSNBC.com found signs of ricin and botulinum at Islamic militants’ camp in northern Iraq. On Nov. 11, 2002, the London Observer ran an article headlined: “The Terrorism Crisis, the Iraqi Connection.”
The Observer reporter David Rose documents the links so many on the peace movement deny exist. Rose tells us of connections between the 9/11 hijackers and not just Iraq, but with Saddam Hussein personally. Rose reports on the meeting between that leading Iraqi colonel who Mohammed Atta flew halfway across the world to meet in Prague in April 2001, and writes, “Evidence is mounting that this meeting was not an isolated event.”
The Observer reports that Atta’s meetings were “only one of several apparent links between Iraq, the Sept. 11 hijackers and al-Qaida.” Rose further reports about training camps in Iraq and eastern Turkey – specifically the 707 fuselage where Saddam trains al-Qaida hijackers. Rose has three independent sources for these reports.
The rallying of Palestinian and Syrian terrorists to the Iraqi cause and the use of Iran as a refuge by the fleeing al-Qaida additionally establishes the obvious: Just as the president said on Sept. 20, 2001, we are in a war with a terrorist enemy who has bases in many countries and whose defeat will only be accomplished on a global front and will take years to complete.
Now the peace movement’s position is that we are aggressors. This claim is a lie and hypocrisy rolled into one. What does the peace movement think Clinton’s assault on Yugoslavia was? Were we attacked? Was Milosevic a threat to America’s national security? Yet there was not a word about the liberation of Kosovo, which took place without a U.N. resolution and without authorization from Congress. President Bush got congressional authorization, which is far more important than any U.N. resolution would be to anyone understanding U.S. constitutional law.
I find it amazing that the peace movement can ignore this evidence, but what can you expect from hypocrites and liars? They use violence in their “peace protest.”
They say they want peace as they smash a window and throw acid on a police officer doing his job. If that is your kind of peace, you’re a politician from Iraq.
Jared Johnson