h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I am not talking about electricity here. Basically I am kinda baffled. Why are we at war, exactly?

OK, I can accept Tony Blair's "moral" argument that Saddam is a ruthless tyrant who murders and tortures his own people, and that he should be removed and democracy installed in his place. No problems there; however, I do wonder where our morals were when our government was building Saddam's chemical weapons plants and supplying him with arms...

I wonder also how some can crow about threats to democracy when they ascended to power on the basis of vote-rigging and a court case.

I wonder how they can also seek to deny weapons of mass destruction to other countries whilst holding an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction larger than the combined arsenals of the rest of the world. Could it be something to do with the fact that WMD are the great "equaliser"? Defend yourself solely with a ramshackle army and you are doomed. Defend yourself with a few long-range missiles armed with nuclear warheads, and the size of your army becomes less significant - you can still potentially destroy American cities. Oops, did I say American?

Of course, apparently American WMD are no threat to the rest of the world. Try telling that to upwards of 5,000 dead civilians in Afghanistan and around 750 so far in Iraq.