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A lot of "well-intentioned" ideas lead to paths of destruction. I believe what I do because I researched it and found out the more I read about certain ideas, the more I agree with them. I don???t agree with anyone says/writes/does, unless it a) agrees with what I already perceived to be true or b) has evidence to back up its claims.
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Cool. Now we can have meaningful dialogue.
The "well-intentioned" ideas you speak of are exactly my beef with Dubya. Except I don't believe his motives are well-intentioned. I think he has a personal vendetta against Hussein 'cause he tried to kill his daddy, oil is part of the situation despite anyone's claims to the contrary, and I think that the notion of pre-emptive attacks is a dangerous one that is going to lead to a lot of American corpses in the long run.
This whole scenario is brutal, tragic, and entirely unnecessary. All you have to do is look at how many times the Bush Family Show has changed their reasons for attacking Iraq. First it was weapons of mass destruction. Then, when they coldn't find any weapons, the reason was that he kills his own people. When people brought up how our gov't turned a blind eye to that gassing, they said that Iraq had ties to Al-Qaeda. When they couldn't prove that (and they never did- CIA director George Tenet said so repeatedly), they went back to the WMD story. Since then, they've just kind of switched back and forth between these three main stories, using whichever one was convenient for them at the time.
Oh, and I don't want to forget the other reason for attacking- "Regime change." Well, guess what? Take a cue from Henry Kissinger, and just have the CIA assassinate the guy. Quick, clean, achieves the goal, and saves a shitload of money.
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