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Was the war on Iraq justified
place in a “prison cleansing campaign” during the late 1990s. The execution of women in Iraq is practically barbaric. At least 130 were beheaded based on allegations of prostitution in a period of less than one year. Horrid reports of torture victims in Iraq have often surfaced.
"victims of torture in Iraq are subjected to a wide range of forms of torture, including the gouging out of eyes, severe beatings and electric shocks... some victims have died as a result and many have been left with permanent physical and psychological damage." (2001 Amnesty International Report.)
Iraq’s totalitarian system of government allows for such abuses. Peaceful transfers of power are not possible. Reformers are corrupted and reduced to committing acts of terrorism, which is their only form of dissidence. The very nature of Iraq’s government fosters the development of extremist and terrorist groups. (Netanyahu)
Until now, Iraq posed a serious threat to the free world. In democratic governments the oppressed can peacefully attain their basic rights. In the totalitarian government of Iraq the quest for civil liberties is skewed so that the people are so desperate that the ends can be justified by any means, including the murder of many innocent civilians. The brainwashed soldiers of the Iraqi regime possessed both the means the will to wreak havoc upon the world. Iraq’s possession of chemical and biological weapons was well known because of previous use of such agents by the Iraqi military. Iraq’s refusal to acknowledge this fact was in a way an admission of their guilt. The examples of South Africa, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan set the standard for disarmament. Inspectors were given access to every site, and all persons currently and previously working there, at all times. The fact that they possessed weapons was known, and they were turned over. (Rice) All documents pertaining to the weapons were submitted. Iraq merely hid the weapons and pertinent details about their manufacture and let inspectors play hide and seek only when absolutely necessary. This constant type of deception made the removal of Saddam from power necessary. And the use of force was the only way to accomplish this. N. W. Farris points out that
“with a few minor concessions from Saddam that will make it appear that he is disarming when he is not, the international community will leave the dictator in power—and the Iraqi people at his mercy.”
Saddam Hussein would never resign from his strangle-hold over Iraq. And the people of Iraq, while under the rule of Saddam could never truly be free.
The coalition forces as well as most Iraqi’s not benefited by the Iraqi regime had [next page]