If nothing changes, peace has a chance—for a few weeks





As the Bush administration continues to beat its war drums, demonstrators both at home and throughout the world have also expressed their feelings, calling for peace. Depending on your opinion about the need to destroy Saddam Hussein, you either relate to the anti-war factions or you don’t.


If Iraq continues to lie about and conceal its weapons of mass destruction, will the demonstrators eventually acknowledge that Hussein is ridiculing the United Nations?


Will they change their minds if Iraq continues to offer absolutely no evidence that its chemical and biological weapons have been destroyed?


Do the people who are calling for peace doubt that Hussein will eventually use his weapons, either against another nation or his own people?


Nobody, to our knowledge, wants war, including the president. But for whatever reason, the Bush administration has been ineffective (so far) at proving to the world and to the American people that this is a just and unavoidable war.


The attempts to connect Hussein and Osama Bin Laden have been tenuous at best.


Ironically, Bin Laden wants the war, probably more than anyone. He believes it will cause an even greater backlash of anti-Americanism in the Arab world and more motivation for terrorist attacks against the U.S.


Both sides make compelling arguments. But if Iraq continues to play a game of hide and seek, the Bush administration will have little choice.


The war that nobody wants will come to pass, probably within weeks.



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