03/16/2003 Entry: ""
Posted by Maynard @ 11:22 PM MST
Coin Toss
Bill Cosby once likened war to a football game in a stand-up routine. The coin toss determined who set the rules of war instead of who kicked off. George Bush has set the rules. Saddam Hussein must disarm completely or face serious consequences, including war to enforce disarmament via regime change. Listening to his speeches of the past week and reading his press conference transcript from Sunday, I can see he understands the fundamental problem.
The French contend that WMD inspections are an effective way of disarming Iraq. They are wrong. If inspections discover arms that are later destroyed, what prevents Hussein from ordering the manufacture of more WMD?
Nothing, because inspections by themselves offer no consequences for undesired actions.
George Bush approaches the problem from a different perspective, one colored by his own personal history. He realizes that unless the man behind the WMD changes, no amount of inspections will have a lasting effect on the Iraqi arsenal. I say his own background colors his perspective because he knows what can happen when a man changes. He used to be a drunkard. Now he doesn't touch liquor, because he has been changed. He therefore applies the same principle to Hussein: if Hussein changes, Iraq will destroy its WMD and not rebuild that arsenal. If he does not change, the weapons will not go away no matter how many inspectors are in country or how much time they have.
Further, he realizes that Hussein does not want to change, so he must be forced to. The only effective means that force him to change is the use, not just the threat, of military force. The threat of force didn't liberate Kuwait, the use of it did.
Hussein's biggest problem, as far as I can see, is his willingness to murder the innocent. The best estimates put his bloodletting as high as one million Iraqis. God does not just let that kind of wanton disregard for human life go unpunished; just ask Hitler and Stalin.
I believe that God is going to judge Hussein, and he is going to use the United States to do it. Further, I believe that this war will be over quickly, because the United States corrected a part of its bloodletting this past week.
We outlawed elective infanticide, also known as partial birth abortion. Well, technically the Senate did, and the House still has to, but they have before, and President Bush has vowed to sign it. The point is, we repented from our sin, and God rewards repentance.
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