Well, it's really alarming how a bit of theater before the UN can actually convince people that a war is now justified. The Union has jumped right on Powell's bandwagon. The question is what their true motivation is, because I don't think even Merkel is stupid enough to believe such hocus pocus...
If a little spectacle with nice slides and neat meaningless digipictures with impressive arrows on them are really enough to put tens of thousands of civilians in danger or simply murder them, then our world has truly gone very far downhill.
With its massive military research, particularly in the areas of bioweapons (in case anyone forgot: the anthrax attacks that made waves for a long time came from US-owned laboratories) and chemical weapons, as well as its refusal to uphold or ratify various treaties, the USA is a far greater danger to the world than Iraq. Especially since the sense of mission of some Americans (who unfortunately happen to also be in government power) is far more pronounced than that of most followers of Islam.
Of course, I can't accept terrorists and terrorist attacks either. But I still don't demand that the USA be attacked just because it provides cover for fascists and neo-Nazis in its country, or even grants them the status of a church.
I found the original article at TAZ here.