I agree with U.S. crushing Sadam ... somebody should do it anyway, at one point ...
BUT the reasons are, obviously, not the ones stated ...
The history stays like this: in 1937, Kuweit is put under the U.S. protectorate, in order to secure the oil reserves it had ... Than Sadam wants to take it back (as it originaly was an Irakian province), so the Gulf War starts; the americans argue that the new global order starts from 1945, not earlier, so they defeat him ... Anyway, Sadam crossed the line, and it is a threat to his neibours if left alone, but not with Europe and U.S. ready to opose ...
THE ACTUAL CRISIS comes, in my opinion, as a result of the U.S. frustration for being politicaly defeated in the Gulf WAR - the actual administration and staff members around Bush are mainly the same as then (Powell, Kissinger etc.).
I think the oposition manifested by France and Germany comes not because they care for Sadam or for peace, but because they must rally Europe around them - the ideea for an european army just started to make it's way - so no one should fear for a major conflict now; Russia, also, demonstrates that an alliance with Europe it's prefered to one with US; I think S.U.A. are mistaking in leting this happen, as they will end up in the future as Great Britain stands now before Europe: a huge island on the western shores of the U.E. + Russia ...
So Europe will let U.S. to crush Sadam, nobody objects, they only use this ocasion in order to give a cry for unity in it's ranks ... I'm on Europes' side, anyway ...
Just my opinion
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