When trying to keep up to date with current affairs, it can become all to easy to forget why certain situations started in the first place. If you have or had an opinion on an issue last month, you might find yourself revising that when presented with a titbit of information that could quell the possible threat of something bad happening. And this information might only be a shoestring last ditch effort to provide some sense of stability in a potentially life threatning set of decisions being discussed. Is that how we feel today about Iraq, I wonder?

Having read the news, Iraq’s offer of technical talks with the UN has again, like times previous, provided a whisp of hope. But is this really good enough? I say “no.” Technical talks does not mean that Weapons Inspectors will return to Iraq, and I certainly don’t hold out any trust in their freedom of access to weapons should they return. It is also worth considering that should such talks fail, then many people would consider the effort to save an ever growing threat of invasion into Iraq, as disappeared. And afterall, what is the point? President Bush has already said that the world should rid itself of certain Leaders, Saddam included, and that all the world is doing is ensuring the repetition of political drama by compromising with aggressive regimes. So, weapons aside, the war to oust Saddam is the whole point.

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