Going to war in the name of peace? No, how about we keep the weapons inspectors, and wait until they actually find any weapons of mass destruction. If they find any, the UN can order Saddam to take them apart under UN supervision. Peaceful solution. Okay, that means that Iraq won't have a democratic government set up, and the Iraquis, Kurds and other inhabitants will continue to be victimised by Saddam, but that's a hell of a lot better than killing hundreds of completely innocent civilians. George Bush is obviously the biggest threat to world peace there is, and the fact that he's only truely after Iraq because of their oil fields just proves that the US as a nation isn't taking the responcibility to find alternative means of fuel and energy. As you can tell, I am against the war, but it's not because I'm worried about a third world war, it's because I feel that it is morally unacceptable, especially when there is a perfectly good peaceful resolution sitting right in front of Blair and Bush.
A lot of people walked out of schools and collages across Britain today to demonstrate their protest to war. I considered this, as did plenty of people in my year at school, but in the end we decided that in times such as this, we cannot afford to compensate education for short-term expression. In the end, today's children will form tomorrow's governments, and only if they are educated and ethical will they avoid the mistakes our leaders are making today. I actually came on here thinking there'd be something on here about these walk-outs so I could disagree, but it seems I'm going to have to mention it myself.
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