What do I think about the war in Iraq? This is both an easy and a difficult question to give an answer to.

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MARINA NAZZARO

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THE WAR IN IRAQ

What do I think about the war in Iraq? This is both an easy and a difficult question to give an answer to.

Easy because war should be abhorred by everyone and should never be taken into account as a solution for whatever kind of problem may rise on the face of Earth. And this is my position.

But it is also difficult because, unfortunately, when economical interests are at stake  and this is true for this war as it was true for the wars of the past  man seems to forget how terrible it is to bring death, destruction and devastation to many and many innocent people and he seems to keep just power and money in his mind.

For it is clear that this is a war for oil, whose real reason has been well hidden behind an anti-terrorism propaganda, built  in a quite disgusting way, I dare say  on the wave of the feelings of anguish and fear born on September 11, when the Manhattan Twin Towers were destroyed.

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Even if terrorism was the real cause for this war, it would be a mistake to believe it can be destroyed through this kind of military action because  and most experts assert this  terrorism is not the expression of a centralized and hierarchical power which plans its actions, but it rather has its own characteristics, developing itself in a myriad of different places and through a sort of pulverized power which cannot be fought through a conventional war with weel-defined targets but, and this is my opinion, through a carefully and patiently organized police operation.

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