the war: ridiculous claims

[cellio]

I've heard a lot of people in the last few days arguing that we're attacking Iraq at Israel's bidding. This is ridiculous for a number of reasons, including the fact that no ally has that much control over US foreign policy, but that's not what I focused on in this letter.

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Editor,

If the US had really gone to war on Israel's behalf, as some of your letter-writers have suggested, then we would not be bombing Baghdad. We would be bombing Ramallah and Gaza. This war actually works AGAINST Israel's interests, becuase the US is expending all of its resources, military and diplomatic, going after a second-order threat instead of dealing with known terrorists with known supplies of weapons. From Israel's point of view, how smart is that?

Those who would place the blame for initiating this war beyond Washington have not made their case.

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[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

This is a major reason for my conflicted feelings. It's not about the war - the war is bad and stupid, and even if it needed to be fought, this is totally the wrong way to do it.

It's the other people who oppose it that scare me.