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End the war in Iraq
Published by Hechuan Lin on Mar 12, 2007
Target: U.S. government
Region: United States of America
Background (Preamble):
Following the 1991 Gulf War, the United Nations mandated that Iraqi chemical, biological, nuclear, and long range missile programs be verifiably halted and all such weapons verifiable destroy. U.N weapons inspector inside Iraq were able to verify the destruction of a large amount of WMD-material, but substantial issues remained unresolved after they left Iraq in 1998 due to the lack of cooperation by the Iraqi government.
After 9/11 attacks, the president of the United States George W. Bush claimed that Saddam Hussein supported for international terrorist groups of treat to the West. He demanded a complete end to alleged Iraqi production and use of weapons of mass destruction and that Iraq comply with UN Resolutions requiring UN inspectors unfettered access to areas those inspectors thought might have weapons production facilities. During this time, before 2003 invasion of Iraq, Bush repeatedly backed demands for unfettered inspection and disarmament with treats of invasion.
Even though the government of Iraq agreed to new inspections in late 2002 and inspectors did not find any WMD stockpiles, the United States, United Kingdom, and Spain proposed another resolution on Iraq, witch they called the “ eighteenth resolution” to give Iraq a deadline to comply with previous resolution before a possible military intervention. This proposed resolution was subsequently withdrawn because not enough countries would have supported it. In particular, NATO members France and Germany, together with Russia, were opposed to a military intervention in Iraq, on the ground that it would be very risky, in terms of security, for the international community, and defended a diplomatic process of disarmament.
However, the White House had never stopped its plan which invading Iraq to achieve their “purpose”. In March 2003 the U.S. government announced that “diplomacy has failed” and that it would proceed with a coalition of allied countries, named “coalition of the willing”, to rid Iraq of its alleged weapons of mass destruction witch meant the war in Iraq was on hand.
After 9/11 attacks, the president of the United States George W. Bush claimed that Saddam Hussein supported for international terrorist groups of treat to the West. He demanded a complete end to alleged Iraqi production and use of weapons of mass destruction and that Iraq comply with UN Resolutions requiring UN inspectors unfettered access to areas those inspectors thought might have weapons production facilities. During this time, before 2003 invasion of Iraq, Bush repeatedly backed demands for unfettered inspection and disarmament with treats of invasion.
Even though the government of Iraq agreed to new inspections in late 2002 and inspectors did not find any WMD stockpiles, the United States, United Kingdom, and Spain proposed another resolution on Iraq, witch they called the “ eighteenth resolution” to give Iraq a deadline to comply with previous resolution before a possible military intervention. This proposed resolution was subsequently withdrawn because not enough countries would have supported it. In particular, NATO members France and Germany, together with Russia, were opposed to a military intervention in Iraq, on the ground that it would be very risky, in terms of security, for the international community, and defended a diplomatic process of disarmament.
However, the White House had never stopped its plan which invading Iraq to achieve their “purpose”. In March 2003 the U.S. government announced that “diplomacy has failed” and that it would proceed with a coalition of allied countries, named “coalition of the willing”, to rid Iraq of its alleged weapons of mass destruction witch meant the war in Iraq was on hand.
Petition:
On Match 20, 2003 at approximately 2:30 UTC or about 90 minutes after the lapse of the 48-hour deadline, at 5:33 local time, explosions were heard in Baghdad. There was now evidence that various Special Forces and Special Operations troops from the coalition crossed the border into Iraq. Bush gave four reasons for the war:
To spare the people of Iraq from further suffering resulting from an oppressive, brutal dictatorship
To rid the region of weapons of mass destruction under development by Saddam Hussein as called for by various UN resolutions
To install free democracy within Iraq and ultimately the surrounding region for the benefit of the people.
To sever connections between Saddam Hussein (and his weaponry) and international terrorist groups of threat to the West.
First of all, let’s talk about the first the third reason why U.S. government decided to begin the war. The White House always likes talking about human right and democracy in other counties. But what about America itself? Here is some information from an authoritative report. Up to December 31, 2006, the number of American privately owned firearms was the first; causing 5.2 million violent crimes happened in the past year. The ratio and number of prisoners in the United Stated was the first in the world, the prisoners were treated badly, and the abuse of prisoners was widespread. Apartheid, racial discrimination in America is deep-rooted. Blacks and other ethnic minorities are being discriminated against in employment. Black unemployment rate is twice than that of whites. Let’s back to the war. What happened after the war? I actually don’t know how oppressive and brutal the Saddam was before, but I know now how anguished the Iraqi are. Over 655 thousand Iraqi civilian died during the war and the number is increasing continually. Otherwise, the American troop cost has been over 3 thousand lives. That means there are over 3 thousand families in grief.
End the war in Iraq now!
To spare the people of Iraq from further suffering resulting from an oppressive, brutal dictatorship
To rid the region of weapons of mass destruction under development by Saddam Hussein as called for by various UN resolutions
To install free democracy within Iraq and ultimately the surrounding region for the benefit of the people.
To sever connections between Saddam Hussein (and his weaponry) and international terrorist groups of threat to the West.
First of all, let’s talk about the first the third reason why U.S. government decided to begin the war. The White House always likes talking about human right and democracy in other counties. But what about America itself? Here is some information from an authoritative report. Up to December 31, 2006, the number of American privately owned firearms was the first; causing 5.2 million violent crimes happened in the past year. The ratio and number of prisoners in the United Stated was the first in the world, the prisoners were treated badly, and the abuse of prisoners was widespread. Apartheid, racial discrimination in America is deep-rooted. Blacks and other ethnic minorities are being discriminated against in employment. Black unemployment rate is twice than that of whites. Let’s back to the war. What happened after the war? I actually don’t know how oppressive and brutal the Saddam was before, but I know now how anguished the Iraqi are. Over 655 thousand Iraqi civilian died during the war and the number is increasing continually. Otherwise, the American troop cost has been over 3 thousand lives. That means there are over 3 thousand families in grief.
End the war in Iraq now!
The End the war in Iraq petition to U.S. government was written by Hechuan Lin and is in the category Politics at GoPetition. Contact author here. Petition tags: weapons, united, government, iraqi, destruction, saddam, resolution, inspectors, international, prisoners, hussein, thousand, special, oppressive, house, coalition, countries, america, american, happened, intervention, le
