Protecting America, liberating Iraq or just economics?

<a href=www.vheadline.com>Venezuela's Electronic News Posted: Monday, April 14, 2003 By: Elio Cequea

VHeadline.com reader Elio Cequea writes: When the UN inspectors were in Iraq looking for chemical weapons and weapons of mass destruction, they could not find anything. President Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell insisted that the US government "had intelligence reports indicating that Saddam Hussein and his regime had them."

Thus, the war started to "disarm Saddam Hussein and to protect the American people from terrorist attacks." During the war, there was not even one attack with chemicals and the only weapons of mass destruction that we saw were used by the coalition forces "against" Iraq.

• The war is over. Iraqi weapons of mass destruction have not been found yet. The motive for the war now has been changed to "liberate the Iraqi people". Same war, just different motive.

I heard on the radio yesterday that President Bush said at a press conference that he "was confident that weapons will be found." Apparently the intelligence reports given to him and Powell were not complete, and they did not mentioned the location of those weapons. That is why, I guess, the information was never given to the UN inspectors ... either that or he just wanted a good reason to "liberate" Iraq.

I hope, in the name of peace, the reports were incomplete and weapons are found.

On the contrary, and if the US President is the man of principles some people say he is, he should not have trouble finding reasons to "liberate" China, North Korea, Vietnam and Cuba.

If he doesn't try to liberate these countries, it will confirm that the war with Iraq happened just to control the second major oil reserve in the world.

Elio Cequea feico57@aol.com

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