For those interested:
My wife, Mary, went in for her operation today (a full hysterectomy) and
everything went well. She had been having problems along this line for a
long time and I believe this will take care of the problem. As this is a
rather serious operation she'll be in the hospital till Friday. Her
physical activity will be severely curtailed for about six weeks as well.
Meanwhile the boys (Three: seventeen, thirteen and eleven) and I are
managing to hold down the fort, but just barely <grin>. As you might expect
my participation on ZION will be of a minimal nature until things get back
to a semblance of normality around here. I do read all of the posts,
sometimes in a hasty manner depending on time, but will probably not post
myself or reply unless something really takes my fancy.
I might mention one thing, while I was waiting for Mary to go into surgery,
I was able to pick up the local SUU (Southern Utah University) channel
where the weekly convocation was being shown. The invited guest was none
other than former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter. Very interesting
speech and very convincing, to me at least, his warning towards the U.S. in
initiating a war with Iraq. Basically what it amounts to, and maybe Marc
has more information on this as I consider myself highly uniformed on this
issue, is that the United States has not been living up to their
commitments in international law. Now I'm against the United Nations as a
peacekeeping force as I believe it actually is a war making body (as well
as the seedbed for global government) but since we are signatories to the
UN Charter and have worked through the UN we must either disavow the
charter or live up to our obligations. The United States has been acting
sort of like a cop who plants evidence or otherwise breaks the law in order
to bring down a bad guy. Now Scott Ritter has nothing good to say about
Saddam Hussein but believes that we must obey the law in order to cause any
substantial change in Iraq. For instance the United States has repeatedly
stated that what they want is a regime change (overthrow Saddam Hussein)
before they lift economic sanctions against Iraq. Well, the original
agreement was to lift the economic sanctions if it could be proven that
Iraq was complying with the ban on weapons of mass destruction. So now when
the United States comes in and then demands a regime change (and the CIA
has been involved in several plots to make that happen) it makes us out as
the bad guys and Iraq as the good guys. Scott Ritter believes that Saddam
Hussein must eventually go but it must be done according to law. Just one
more thing to consider on this whole Iraq situation.
--
Steven Montgomery
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