This thread is hilarious.
Anti-war people were never saying, "Saddam is telling the truth. He has no WMD".
When did a single anti-war person EVER say that? When? When? Everyone knew that Iraq was bound to have something lying around since U.S. companies have been selling weapons grade material to Iraq for decades.
What most people around the world were saying is that if the world is so concerned about Saddam's weapons ,that may or may not be in violation of UN resolutions, then the UN and NOT the U.S. should follow through with inspections - a non violent method that WAS WORKING. When they found those Al-Samoud missiles, the Iraqi's started destroying them under UN observation. If the U.N. found a few warheads stuffed with pesticides, they would have destroyed those too.
Instead, the US went to war to grab oil and spread its hegenomy. THAT is what people around the world have been protesting about. A major side point to all these protests is to underscore American hypocracy. The US is the leading manufacturer of WMD, including some pretty nasty biological agents. The US has used these weapons en massse and on non-combatants to boot - we doused Cambodia with Sarin and practically defoliated Vietnam with Agent Orange. Millions of innocent villagers were decimated.
We are the only country in the world to have used nuclear weapons ON CIVILIAN TARGETS. Say what you want about Hiroshima but Nagasaki can never be justified by any logic whatsoever.
We have been bombing someone somewhere in the world every year for the last 60 years. The USA has waged perpetual war every year for the last 60 years!!! Has Canada done this? Has France? Have other industrialized nations? During that time we have armed and directly supported the most brutal dictators of the 20th century: The Shah of Iran, Marcos, Noriega, Duvalier, Saddam, Pinochet...the list is endless.
We go to war and defy the UN in order to make another country "obey UN resolutions". Meanwhile, we support Israel which has violated three times as many UN resolutions as Iraq. The hypocracy is endless. Absolutely endless!
Sad but true: It is the U.S. that has become the greatest threat to world peace.
And this is not coming from a "US hater". It is coming from a patriotic American who wants to see his country restore its values to those it was founded on!!!
