Tuesday, December 23, 2003War can't be justified: Saddam
takes heat off Bush Opinion, Dec. 21. I AGREE with Linda McQuaig that
Saddam Hussein's capture is being seized as
vindication for a war that most of the world
continues to oppose. But if you imagine that the
war actually had been fought to depose an evil
tyrant, would it then be possible (as Tony
Blair contends) to see it as morally
justified? What if it were the people of North America who
had to pay the price for Saddam's capture as the
Iraqi people have? A foreign army invades in a
massive "shock and awe" campaign, killing thousands
of our civilians and maiming thousands more. They do their best to hide our suffering from
the outside world, not even bothering to count our
dead. Anarchy ensues, with a complete breakdown of
policing, the justice system, and all form of
social bureaucracy and order. Unemployment reaches more than 50 per cent. You
learn that all our state-owned businesses,
utilities and natural resources are to be
privatized and sold to foreign interests. Would you say it was all worth it to bring a
tyrant to justice? Or would you think a foreign
power was just capitalizing on and extending your
misery to seek advantage for itself? Michael Gaspar
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