Why do you even care about Kurds and Shiites being gassed? Atrocities like these happen in several countries in the world, most notably in our “old” allies in the Middle East, namely Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

Unfortunately, all those who support war have given in to the media and the government’s war cries. If Bush had chosen, say Libya, and started to call Libya the world’s greatest threat to humanity and peace, I am sure you would have given into such crap.

Iraq’s defenses are being bombed on a regular basis almost everyday (as part of the southern no-fly zone enforced by the United States and Britain). It is being watched carefully everyday by U.N. weapons inspectors, U-2 spy planes and spy satellites. The United States has more than 300,000 troops in the Persian Gulf, protecting its Middle Eastern oil reserves 24-7 and ready to knock out even the slightest aggression by Iraq.

Iraq is technologically behind when compared to the United States. There is absolutely no possibility for Iraq to ever be a threat to the United States, let alone to the world.

Please don’t blindly believe what Bush says. As you rightly pointed out, “Do the research yourself.”

Prasanna Padmanabhan