'People who constantly live in a shadow of strife and death seem to resist it all the more. I have never seen a more courageous act than that of being able to smile, laugh and love despite knowing your friends, family and you could be the victims of stray bullets at any time.'

--A war journalist, the Today paper, March 22nd, 2003.

Don't you admire any civilian who has been through a war? Wouldn't you admire anyone who has been through a war? For simply being able to stay alive everyday, and to keep themselves and their family busy, or at least occupied?

I do.

I honestly don't care what Saddam has done in the past, or will do in the future. I don't care what Bush thinks he will do or can do, or is capable of doing. War is never right, it never determines who is right or who is wrong. All it does determine is who is left. Indeed, who will be left? Innocent, now homeless civilians who were caught in the line of fire. Broken families, people who have lost limbs, friends, families, relatives. It doesn't matter what Saddam did in the past, what Bush is simply doing, what any leader would be doing if he attacked another country, is destroying their already fragile economy and lowering their already low level of hygiene and standard of living!

In one blow, Bush has undone all the work of all the humanitarian societies and organisations ever to set foot on Iraq! It will cost the US $200 billion just to get Iraq a new government, and help it set up its economy again.

Do you seriously think, that after this war, Saddam will actually being liking or cooperating with the US? If he hasn't already been killed, that is. I hardly think so. If the school bully were to punch you in the face today, would you respect him tomorrow? Would you cooperate with him? No! Most likely, you would fear him, keep your distance, but never cooperate with him.

After twelve years of diplomacy, do you think Saddam will cooperate, if he hasn't in the past? I don't think so.

The US may be able to injure him and his country physically, but perhaps not mentally. Mentally, Saddam may still be defiant, like any cornered animal is.

The US has not made life better for the Iraqis or the Kurds. Don't you think they've already suffered enough? The US calls this the 'liberation of Iraq'. No war ever liberates anyone or anything, all it does is impose more suffering upon them.

Now, ironically, the people of Iraq will be dodging the bullets and bombs of the coalition forces instead of hiding from the blows and atrocities of Saddam.

'If done right, years from now people will remember above all that America helped rid Iraq of a totalitarian dictator.'

---Excerpt from special report by Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek, March 24th, 2003.

If. If done right. Only if. But a war will not help heal the widening rift of mistrust that has formed between the world and America after their reckless actions before the UN.

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