Saddams Final Warning

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Saddam’s Final Warning

Any American with any type of television programming, whether it be the most advanced Satellite system, or the most basic local stations can turn on the news and see that Saddam Hussein poses a clear and present danger to the United States. Today November 11, 2002 is Veterans Day and instead of giving a speech on past wars President Bush gave Saddam Hussein his final warning. The President made it very clear that if Saddam does not comply with United Nations armistice laws by Friday November 15,2002 that the United States of America will lead a coalition of nations against Iraq forcing the armistice upon them.

Saddam Hussein has been linked to the brutal murders of his own family members who did not agree with him. If a man can kill his own bloodline then what is stopping him from murdering millions of innocent civilians that he has never even met? To answer this question honestly, nothing is stopping him, he just has not made his move yet. If the rest of the world sits back and allows him to make the first move millions of innocent civilian lives will be lost. The men enlisted into the armed forces know from the start that they may die in battle one day. This does not make it okay to send them to battle and not worry about them because they always knew it might happen., the United States must fear for their troops as well as have faith in them. Guaranteed any soldier would rather die in battle than they would live to see another terrorist attack such as 9-11-02.
Osama Bin Laden did not have the funding, resources, or the power over his country that Hussein does. Bin Laden killed over 3,000 innocent civilians by simply flying a few planes into buildings. With the technology and resources that Saddam owns he could murder millions of Americans by dropping a nuclear weapon on a large city such as New York, or Los Angeles. Unless America wants to bury millions and rebuild entire cities, a...