[moe.ron]

What I'm worried about is future consequences that I doubt the adminstration have throughly consider. Even if they have gotten a resolution, the credibility of the security council was gone. Reform of the UN is 2 decade is the waiting. Security Council itself is very undemocratic as permenant five, not elected, can decide what is going on, while the other over 100 nations can do nothing about it. Then there is a pre-emptive strike, which is highly illegal and could result in very bad precedence in the future. India and Pakistan, though I highly doubt it, could easily use the same argument the Bush administration used and attacked each other.

Then there is the legality of this conflict. This legality is very well questioned as Bush and his supporter say 1441 authorized the use of force. This is where the argument arise, which is why an international court is needed to settle this. Some might say that is infringing on sovereignty issue, this argument is also used by dictators and despot who argue that no country has the right to criticize their human rights situation due to sovereignty. Read the "Asian Value" argument in the early to mid 90s by Lee Kuan yew and Mahatir Muhammed (sp?).

Aside from the legality, I've only herd Bush and Blair giving propoganda speech about what come after the conflict. Yet, they both have not give us detailed information on the post-saddam Iraq. Right now, I've just been called by a friend at the UN in Indonesia who asked me if I want to go there for a contract at the impending rush of refugee toward Australia through Indonesia. Giving Australia's recent disgrace treatment of refugees, i shutter to think how they will treat the Iraq's refugee now. Also, no doubt there will be intense fluctuation of refugees toward the neighboring countries and European also. I have no doubt that many will also end up in the Eastern seaboard of the States.

The reconstruction of Iraq will be very expensive. The fall out to the economies of the world will depend on the length of the conflict. If this war gets bogged down, then the recession that we are still currently in will get worst. If its quick, who knows. As you can see, I have lots of question that is non-military that bush or blair has not answer. And this what scares me the most, the unknown. But I guess Blair won't be able to find a dissertation to plagerised when it come to post-Saddam iraq.