] And for what? To avenge 9/11 by punishing a regime that ] had no proven role in it? Out of humane concern for the ] Iraqi people, whom we have been, by our own policies, ] starving and impoverishing for the last decade? In order ] to destroy possibly mythical "weapons of mass ] destruction" in Iraq, even while we abide their proven ] existence in such potentially irrational countries as ] Pakistan, Israel, India, France, and, hardly least, the ] United States? The Administration attacked before it ever ] provided a justification that would satisfy any but the ] most TV-enchanted Christian soldier. Barlow's reaction to hearing the Iraq war had begun. BarlowFriendz | CONTEMPLATING WAR IN THE LAND OF PEACE |