Just like many of us, i felt outrage that the United States of America, the UK and the "coalition forces" invaded Iraq - in a bid to disarm a nation of its "WMD":http://cns.miis.edu/research/wmdme/ (of which all that's been "found so far is a trailer":http://www.aizuddindanian.com/voi/archives/000396.html), in a bid to remove "a despot":http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1100529.stm, in a bid to retaliate for past acts of terrorism and to prevent future ones.
I've never believed that force is an acceptable tool for "foreign policy":http://www.foreignpolicy.com/index.php; war is an act of irrational beings who have lost the capacity to find peaceful solutions. And yet, after reading that "mass graves have been found in Iraq":http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52432-2003May13.html (up to 15,000 bodies), i can't help but feel that the US/UK has probably unwittingly done the Iraqi people and, in extension, the world community a favour. "Thousands upon thousands":http://electroniciraq.net/news/780.shtml of Iraqi "Shi'ite Muslims":http://www.bartleby.com/65/sh/Shiites.html were slaughtered by an Iraqi government led by Saddam - "Sunni":http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/islam/sunni/geness.html ethnic cleansing at work, in the name of "a religion":http://www.islamtomorrow.net/islam/definition.htm that ONLY means "peace".
Forget WMD, forget cross-border international terrorism - the "murder of thousands of Iraqis":http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=2739002 is reason enough for war. I dare anyone "to speak out against the war now":http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/3026655.stm.
Does the finding of mass graves justify the war in Iraq?
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