Other than the fact that a war serves no one but ourselves, and that we have no business being "world police", I feel the main thing lost in all this is that it is about the rule of law.

It's like if your spouse was murdered and the suspect was on trial. You have no rights to kill or otherwise injure that person. The law is handling it. We trust the law.

In the case of Iraq, they broke a resolution of the Security Council. We are a permanent member of that board as well as Russia, China, France, Germany, Brittan and I think several others. The Council has handed down their judgement to Saddam. They are awaiting his compliance. It doesn't matter what Bush thinks, it's not his choice. If he believed in democracy at all, he would understand this (of course he's rich and from Texas--not exactly rule followers) . He also gained his position directly as account of the due process system!

As a member of the council we should voulantarily abide by their decisions. What Bush is pulling, especially what's not on american news, is downright wrong! They are supposed to be our peers, and we have tried to harass or threaten each of them into giving us what blood we want.

I maintain that if we are the "best" [i'll use it loosely] democracy, we should act like it. While we don't have to abide by the Security Council, neither technically does Saddam! The power only comes from following their will --even if our prez doesn't like it. This is typical American politics. Russia, China, France, and Germany know this. We have slapped in their faces for years, and now they are probably enjoying the turn of events! Still, we should follow the council's vote if We expect them to be taken seriouslly. That's the point of democracy, that the majority makes the best decisons and then we all follow that path. It's time we bit the bullet and showed them how it's done. Even if we don't like it!

Besides, the Securtiy Council already gave us blood once over Afganaistan for Osama's actions. It's time for the witchhunts to end and get back to normal. These other countries have terror attacks all the time, they have learned to live with it. It's time we learned to play fair and stop letting our politicians and corperation make us so many enemies! Then there would be at least a few less terrorists.