I was thinking that the class was supposed to receive by email instructions on writing this third paper. When I did not receive the instructions, I assumed my email address had been excised from the professor's email list, and I proceeded to write this, "Justifying Iraqi Freedom". The title's got a kind of double-meaning, since we're both justifying the freedom of the people of Iraq and the operation Iraqi Freedom.
Anyhow, I wrote this mess as a draft, so if it seems unfinished, then that's probably why.
Incidentally, I don't believe anything in this paper. I thought it would be a challenge beyond the standard "review this" or "interview him". I should have been thinking about my grade. What was I thinking?? It's a good thing I've decided to write about Spiderman for my next paper. Yeah. (Sigh.)
It turns out there never was an assignment to write this paper. Ugh.
The mere utterance of the words, "Justify Freedom," sounds alien to Americans. Yet to make any war just the people must have a clear understanding of the goals and their uses (causes?). The United Nations has made evident through its resolutions that Iraq has not abided by strictures imposed upon it as a result of America’s first war with Iraq. Restrictions on Iraq include possessing chemical or biological weapons, the destruction of which they have still not proffered. The Iraqi people must be freed from the tyrannical government of Saddam Hussein.
"No person has murdered more Muslims than Saddam Hussein," says U.S. Army's Lt. General John Abizaid. More than a million people have died as a result of Saddam Hussein’s rule.
Oppression affects woman in Iraq as much as the men. Women are left to support their families after Saddam’s regime has murdered their husbands. The regime kills those women who speak out against it.
Even during times of war the Iraqi government has not kept in mind the safety of its citizens. The coalition military in Iraq has observed their soldiers using non-combatants as shields from weapons fire. The government of Iraq has ordered the burning of oil fields in this country where oil provides 95% of their export income. The government of Iraq does not maintain the best interest of their citizenship. The government does not even consider it. Instead of spending the income it has on the vast poverty that our government cannot even calculate, it allocates the country’s resources toward making war with weapons of mass destructions.
Its overabundance in the media does not lessen the severity of the possible effects of weapons of mass destruction. Evidence exists that illustrates these weapons are created and stockpiled by the Iraqi military.
A tape played by Secretary of State Powell to the United Nations revealed that mobile chemical plants had been constructed in Iraq for the purposes of creating chemical weapons. In a follow-up tape Iraqi men discuss a plan to evacuate existing weapons evidence to a location other than where the United Nations weapons inspectors would look. Clearly, if they did not have these weapons, these men would have no need to order them into hiding.
The United States knows that Iraq provides a haven for terrorists that operate against the United States and its allies. If Iraq is able to provide these weapons to terrorists that are enemies of the United States, then an event worse than the tragedy of September 11 may occur.
The United Nations inspectors have had difficulty locating these weapons in Iraq, a country twice the size of Idaho. The difficulty resides primarily in Iraq’s unwillingness to provide the locations of the weapons as required by the United Nations sanctions. The sanctions in resolution 1440 were an extension in a chain of sanctions that began at the end of the previous Persian Gulf War. At the end of the first war in Iraq, the United Nations knew that Iraq possessed these weapons and insisted that they be destroyed for the benefit of peace. This is how these specific weapons came to be named for destruction.
Iraqi leaders pose a threat to their own country, to the Middle East, and to the United States. Physical removal is the only way that the people of Iraq can be free of their reprehensible leaders. Even the United Nation sees that Iraq is not acting in the benefit of world interests as proven by its multiple resolutions reprimanding Iraq. The United States fulfills the role of policing the world as the only country with adequate military assets and know-how to accomplish the task.
If the United States is not involved, who will protect Americans and the Iraqis from the tyranny of Saddam’s regime and the fallout effects of its actions?
