1) Is the US Invasion of Iraq sanctioned by many countries in the world community ?
there are a lot of countries that support the Invasion from our traditional allies and new ones as well as a cross section of folks. France has large financial motives for the Status Quo, Germany and Belgium are supporting France at the moment and China is slow and cautious as usual. The letter signed by 10 Nations of the EU supported an Invation should not to be brushed away lightly by France or anyone else.

### Who supports the invasion without UN mandate other thaqn UK ??? - you diveriged off into an issue to do with who might support it ???

2) Is it justifiable to invade another country who has not attacked yours or declared war or stated any intent to do so, merely based on an opinion that they 'might' (as in Poland 1939) ?
In 1991 we were in a state of war with that country, we have no peace treaty, the original war was in defence of an Ally of ours, no treaty has been signed, this is a continuation of the original action. The original action caused a tremendous amount of dislike and distrust by the Iraqi's towards the Allies and the US in particular. This regime in Iraq would be a threat and should be removed.

### US is *NOT* at war with Iraq, UN was approached & authorised a UN action. AS pointed out many times you are distorting the facts. Also it is BULLshit to state it is a continuation of the original action because the UN authorized that but WONT authorize a unilater attack today - therein lies your dilema. You claim UN approval which isn't there but attack the UN as irrelevant !!!.

3) Is the invasion of Iraq gong to result in 100s to 1000s of civilian deaths ?
absolutely, anyone who claims otherwise is a fool. No one yet has designed a way for a war to be fought without death. Its a byproduct.

So killing civillians in an unsupported invasion of another country is ok - yeah !!!!!!

6) What happened to Osama Bin Laden & the war on Al-Qaeda ?
Nothing, different issue that is being worked by the same people that were working on it 9/12

### WHERE ???

7) Will invading Iraq & killing many of its citizens & soldiers result in more peace and security for America ?
Immediately after Iraq is secured there will be a short period of relative quiet in America from that quarter. After any large action there is a pause by all parties to see how things shake out. I dont see Sadam loyalists reforming for staging attacks in America Al Quida style, unless they already were members.

### Only time will tell but why do you think Bushites created homeland security then stopped the main focus on OBL. They know bloody well what the outcome will be for US invasion of Iraq. You do to.

5) When reading about this deed in 20 years time how will history judge the invasion - as a heroic American deed in support of world peace or an vulgar ugly blot on world and American history ? It will either be viewed as a success and a warning for change in the arab world or will meltdown completely. See articles I have posted on the state of the Arab League, explains it very well. Right now the ME and west asia is in an explosive state, this action will either defuse the tension, show that America can be a good friend to the neighbors or will set off the explosion, only time will tell.
Doing nothing guaranties the explosion, Invading Iraq and moving for change only guaranties a chance to not explode.

### This will be no less a disgrace than Vietnam.

Cheers Doug Marker
thanx,
bill