Show Thursda7Januarvl51iL 20000 degrees in the shade PMS is a threat to vital staff writer body parts by Sam Pittman cent people get killed in war We are committed to this ordeal in the deserts of the Middle East We are committed to stopping Saddam Hussein whatever the cost There are options available which allow us to dramatically reduce those costs In 1945 President Truman made what was possibly the toughest decision ever made by a leader the decision to use a nuclear weapon The costs were weighed and the Enola Gay delivered Fatboy via airmail to the city of Hiroshima Since that time the use of nuclear weapons has hung over our heads like a cloud of doom So why not put the fear of this weapon to work for us? What I am proposing is quite simple we give Saddam another ultimatum Give him 72 hours to surrender unconditionally to allied forces or we will drop a nuclear weapon on Baghdad In all probability Hussein will consider this a bluff just as he did our ultimatum of Jan 15 In that case we use a low level Neutron bomb on Baghdad This may horrify some people but when you consider the amount of American lives this will save it is a practical solution I do not feel we will have to actually use it I believe the threat will be enough to bring down Hussein at the hands of his own people Seven Iraqi citizens were already executed for trying to take over a television station to call for the overthrow of Hussein This opposition would certainly attempt a coup if their nation was facing a Nuclear Holocaust If there were no coup attempt and Hussein ignored the threat we would have to use the bomb We would still be better off than if we fought a protracted ground offensive American losses would be close to nil factions here in the United States site several reaThe sons for not using the bomb The fact is all of the horrors the antinuclear factions wish to avoid are already existent in the Middle East First is the fear of global nuclear conflict Our actions in the Middle East are in with many other nations of the United Nations We would not have to worry about the threat of allies retaliating As to the threat of Hussein using a nxlear weapon I am sure he would have or Haifa Some may feel that Hussein has already used it on nuclear capability and has not used it because he fears retaliation This is not in keeping with characteristics of the man 1 have been observing Another argument is that of the innocent people who would die in the resulting conflagration When the ultimatum is delivered I am certain that thousands of Iraqi citizens will flee from ground zero As for the ones who do not this is a tragic cost of war that has existed since man began throwing sticks and stones at each other Inno anti-nucle- ar Tel-Av- iv anti-nucle- ar What of the innocent people in Israel who arc dead or maimed? Their only crimes are being within range of the Iraqi Scud Missiles and being hated by Hussein We owe it to the people of Israel to bring the Gulf War to a swift and decisive conclusion staff writer With the recent events in the Persian Gulf many are questioning the United States involvement in the conflict Protests against the war have become commonplace in recent weeks and sentiment is on the uprise Granted families are being parted prisoners of war are being gravely abused and people are dying However I find myself questioning whether or not there are some things worth dying for Was it not Patrick Henry who said "give me liberty or give me death!" Do the people of Kuwait diserve the liberty and sovereignty they enjoyed just a few short months ago? We as Americans have become witness to the insane and irrational tactics of Saddam Hussein From the bombing of populous areas such Tel Aviv to the polluting of the Persian Gulf and the distraction of water supplies and animal life Hussein displays utter disregard for all other nations aside from his own Despite these occurences the sentiment that this is not our concern still But is this not die same attitude which gave Hitler the leeway for genocide and kept Black Americans oppressed for so many anti-Americ- an yen? As George Santyana once stated "Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it" We must realize that we have the responsibility to speak out against injustice despite geographical boundaries Dr Martin NiernoOer a German Protestant theologian experienced editorialist Third there is the concern of damage to the environment This is a PMS that oh so wonderful valid concern With a neutron bomb the radiation is short lived and the joyous occasion where emotions fallout is contained to a relatively small area Using this weapon will run rampant and anything said do far less damage to the environment than the millions of barrels of from the male gender could result crude oil that have been dumped into the gulf Hussein is an environin the loss of a vital body part It mental terrorist who will continue to harm the ecology of the region would seem that men should get a until he is stopped The relative light damage of a neutron bomb is pale vacation during this Hdl week when compared with the possible damage Hussein could do in a because there is nothing that can protracted conflict be done or said that is right Granted the description of the exin this war factor should Another be considered if our country stays it could create economic hardship down the road Is our nation’s perience is not my idea of a picnic in the park but my hell what's a would I has say he economy to be the ultimate victim of Hussein If so succeeded in yet another form of terrorist activity and we shall bear the guy to do I'm not talking about the jerk that believes in the barecost Once Iraq surrenders and Saddam Hussein is turned over to the people foot saga but the nice guys who of Israel that is going to arise the questions of who occupies Iraq and try to help and understand Yes I consider for how long The use of nuclear weaponry will serve to intimidate myself a pretty nice and Iran Syria or any other Islamic neighbor who may have designs on understanding kind of guy but it gets real hard when a female with Iraqi real estate Whatever group of nations occupy Iraq will have a long and difficult the "syndrome" is trying to slash task If all industry is destroyed and the nations of Kuwait and Iraq are your eyes out just because you asked "how arc you?" the rebuilding process will be all the more costly ravaged and war-toWomen seem to have this imand time consuming The quick capitulation of the Iraqi Army would not only help the rebuilding process it would also temporarily stabilize pression that it was the male gender who passed them this tray of the balance of power in the region delight Hey don't point the finFinally using this bomb is likely to save thousands of allied lives When the US decided to use the bomb on Japan it was because they ger at me it's everything I can do to slay alive juggling die synhad weighed the heavy cost in lives we would pay by attempting a ground offensive on the Japanese Archipelago The situation in the Gulf drome schedules between the is quite similar thousands of fanatical troops who are firmly entrenched cheerleaders my advisor girlfriend and the big one-m- y mother in their homeland license if It's to as women is have nuclear bomb a the If using still unacceptable I offer yet another inflict the torments of Hell on alternative We simply fire a "stray" Scud missile and hit the dome of men during this week of "fun" the rock swearing that it was Hussein's missile This would surely turn all of Islam against him This is probably not feasible however so Just because someone skipped us for the time being I say the weather forecast for Iraq should be 20000 over with the burden doesn't mean that women can inflict it physidegrees and cloudy cally as well as mentally Don't get me wrong I really do sympathize with all die women who partake in this weekly ritual the costs of failing to defend the liberty of another During the Third And maybe they ought to be Reich Niemoller watched as they came and took away the Commucranky and physical Forget that! nists but he did not stand up against the injustice because he wasn’t a Just to clarify I'm not talking Communist They came for the Catholics but he did not say anyabout those rare and few who try thing because he was Protestant They took away the Jews and he did to be pleasant but rather those not protest because he was not Jewish Finally when they came for who come out of the gates with him there was no one left to say anything blind fury and rage that no one We as Americans cannot stand by and fail to say anything It is dares to face Let's face it being time that we stop making excuses for passiveness and start with a PMS stricken woman who analyzing what is at stake in this war It is much more than oil milor supplies doesn't try to be pleasant is about itary strength It is the sovereignty of a nation and the preservation of as fun as syphilis as using a cacjustice Martin Luther King once said "justice too long delayed is tus for a lounge chair or using justice denied" Granted we must guard against another Viet Nam sandpaper underwear You get the but we must also refrain from using Viet Nam as an excuse for not' dopicture ing what is morally right If you are a nice guy then the In closing there is an Aesop fable about a woodsman who went to only way to handle it is to be the the woods and asked the trees lo give him a handle for his axe It martyrs that you are Offer your seemed like a modest request so the trees concerned to sacrifice a ytgirtanfe knowing full well you small ash the least important in the forest No sooner had the man fitted could catch a high speed projectile the handle into his axe than he began felling the noblest trees in the right in the forehead As for you wood women out there please take it The oak now understanding the matter too late whispered to the easy on us The body can only heal itself so fast know what I cedar "The first concession has fost all if we had not sacrificed our humblest neighbor we might have stood for ages ourselves" (continued on page S) m Do we have a responsibility in the Persian Gulf? by Melissa Grogan Brad Gwyther |