Heading into war in IRAQ

To delve into another part about the war on iraq. Discuss about the act on going the war that was waged to throw down Saddam Hussein.

What I do not get is about these people who said that diplomacy should have been use. That any war is evil and should not have been done at all. It is ridiculuous because Saddam was laughing his ass off each time negotiators talk to him. He wasn't a reasonable man at all.

I feel that if George Bush Senior wasn't such a chicken and went all the way into Iraq and thrown down Saddam then in the early 90's, we would never have this current situation with iraq.

Long story short: take the act of hammering a nail into a wall. You can sit down and talk about it, which will take time and only get you so far, but will help you decide what angle and where on the wall you want the nail to be, and how to hammer it. Or you can just get up and do it without preparation.

When you get up and do it, be it after discussion concerning method, or after just getting up, there are two ways of doing it. Either you can be gentle, take your time, and be precise, or you can whack it (which usually happens when there was no discussions).

End line, if you whack it, you get the job done, but odds are you have a nice crack in the wall, a bit of plaster on the floor, and a bent nail. It gets the job done, it takes less time, but the chances of making a mess you'll have to clean up (which can be a pain and rather expensive for a crack in the wall) are increased.

That's sort of what you have in today's Iraq.

On the other hand, if you take your time it can be frustrating, but you can concentrate on precise aspects of the problem and get it done with a minimum of hassle, and a clean result (ideally) though occasionally even a patient man cracks the wall and gets some plaster on the floor.

In other words, diplomacy and a multi-lateral approach takes time, perhaps more than it should, but at the end of the day it gets the job done.

So does the US way, but there's a clean up job after, and that's usually even more annoying.

Now let's talk about how you can mess up the clean up job even more by pretending there is no clean up job...