The Most Recent War: IRAQ, what is the reasoning behind this one?

Thousands of people are demonstrating world-wide against the war in Iraq. They cry out, "No War!" They block traffic. They march back and forth across the street. They hold up anti-Israel signs showing swastikas. They smash car windows. They shake their fists. Their opposition to the war seems to be that they think the U.S. chiefs are imperialist bullies, or they just seek to control and profit from oil, or that the U.S. chiefs have just gone berserk. I don't know where people go to get brainwashed, but wherever it was, the propaganda has been brilliantly effective. There is almost no intellectual content to the war opposition. The true reasons why the U.S. chiefs have chosen war are strategic. The U.S. was viciously attacked on September 11, 2001. The attackers claim this was in response to American acts against Muslims, mainly the blockage of trade with Iraq, which has resulted in many deaths and sickness, and the U.S. military base on the holy Islamic ground of Saudi Arabia.

The U.S. could simply abandon that military base and end the trade restrictions. But that would be bad strategy. First, it would be seen as giving in to terror. Second, this would strengthen the military capability of Iraq, which is an aggressive threat to the region. Also, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, another grievance of the anti-US terrorists, is impossible to solve while the current regime of Iraq is in place. The Iraqi regime pays Palestinian terrorists to murder Israelis. Iraq thus presents an intolerable situation. There are great benefits from ending the Iraqi regime, not the least being the ending of the torture that some Iraqis suffer from. The U.S. chiefs have decided that these benefits are greater than the cost of the war. I believe that the costs of this war are greater than the benefits. There are more direct ways to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the U.N. inspectors could have kept Iraq from continuing their weapons program.