George W. Bush's Speech

My translation "While the our country is not the world's police, we are our own police, and if someone commits a crime against us, we will go after them. If the rest of the world is unwilling to help us capture/destroy those that try to hurt us, then we will go it alone. Saddam has commited crimes against us, he has supported others who have committed crimes against us, and we have evidence that argues that he is planning more crimes against us. We will not let him hurt us, or anyone else, anymore, and thus we give him 48 hours to leave Iraq. If this demand is not met, we will send in troops to capture [or kill?] this criminal."

All in all, that's not so unreasonable. How anyone could deny that Saddam is a criminal is beyond me. And how all these people can continue spewing the crap about how "War is never the answer" and "We won't send our children to war," when Saddam has killed, and continues to kill people at a rate probably exceeding what the casualty rate in any impending war will be. If things get out of hand, well that's just the powder keg called the Middle East finally exploding. Anyone who doens't realize that a blow-up will happen there eventually no matter what is crazy. Maybe, maybe, if we were suddenly attacked by aliens, the world might unite. But other than that, I see no hope for true world peace anytime soon. We haven't been truly at peace ever, in the entire history of the human race, and letting Saddam do whatever he wants is not going to lead down that road, nor is the glory of the United Nations going to suddenly make everyone love their neighbor. Taking Saddam out of power, however, will save a lot of lives in the long run, and, if it is done fast enough, we can hope the rest of the Arab world does not get involved, that the conflageration does not spread to Israel and the Palestinian parasites that feed off the hatred spread by Arafat and his ilk (please, do not mistake this as a condemnation of all Palestinians, I only condemn the ones that are so steeped in hatred that they cannot even see that they are sending their families off to die). My sincerest hope is that Saddam is taken out quickly (one way or the other, to be honest, I don't care as long as he no longer is in a position to hurt people), that the recent capture of the Al Queida guy leads to the arrest of more terrorists and the world slowly begins to calm down, and that the Palestinian "nation" will calm down a bit, accept one of Israel's previous, very reasonable offers, and try to enter the 21st century. Who knows, maybe it will happen. We can only hope.