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The United Nations Charter, which was sponsored by the United States right from the start, provides that, except in the case of self-defense, a nation may not wage war against another nation. The United Nations Charter and all of the United Nation's past and recent resolutions require the approval of the Security Council before an act of war by any member can be carried out. Section 8 of our Constitution states that Congress, not the President, has the power to declare war. Congress has not declared war on Iraq. Bush claims that (1) Iraq is attacking the United States and we must defend ourselves; (2) Iraq has weapons of mass destruction; and (3) the United States has a moral obligation to remove Hussein, a tyrannical dictator.
There is no evidence at all that Saddam is responsible for the so-called "training camps" for terrorism against the United States. As long as the United States supports brutal actions against Muslims, training camps, large and small, in any part of the Arab world will continue to exist. The group that planned the Sept 11 attack is Al Qaeda, a fundamentalist extremist group adamantly opposed to Saddam's secular regime. The only effective way we can defend the United States from terrorism is through coordinated counter intelligence. If indeed Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, why then, after months of unrestricted inspection, have none ever been found? Which is worse, Saddam killing hundreds of revolutionaries, or the United States killing thousands of Iraqi men, women, and children in a war that is opposed by the Iraqis themselves?