Wolfgang:

Rio Bravo in Iraq

It’s not facil to ventilate the own „private“ opinion, because we all have too little attainments about the correct situation in Iraq. Is this Saddam Hussein - verily a bad dictator - really  such a danger for the world, or is this version only a declaration of typical american extremeness? We can have a hunch about some possible backgrounds, but sometimes we have more or less sympathies for acting politicians, especially for Mr. US-President, but this all must not be the thruth!
There are some observations (in news or in TV)  making me sceptical: The idioms and the gesture of Mr. Bush  given’t me confidence in his (real) plans! He reminds me of some american „Western“ with John Wayne (but not the good ones!), and I get sometimes the suspicion, that his interests are bearing more on oil and/or on  his image in the USA (‘look here, I am the hero, who has saved the world of the horror of terrorism!’).
On the other side I am afraid, that the enthusiasts of war will underestimate the danger of destabilisation in Near East. There are no democratic countries, and nobody knows, in which direction some Arabian states will develope; what will be the consequences to the conflict between Palästina and Israel? Starting a war can induce a big fire in the total region and can overlap to Europe.
Summerizing: I am against the war, because we can judge the situation like we will: This war would be a war of agression, not a war of  defence!
Finally: Where was the UN and where was Mr. President, when in the last years millions of peoples were killed by terroristic groups in Africa?
I hope this war will not come, but I am afraid, we cannot avert it!