Time Magazine (Sept. 16, 2002): Are We Ready For War?
            
             Are we ready for war? This is a question no one would have ever imagined saying about a year or two ago. Now, once again, peace control is troubled by the evil forces. Iraq, led by Saddam Hussein, is the center of the world¡¯s attention. Iraq has weapons too dangerous for its own good. Because of those weapons, and the man who controls them, many nations if not all, feel threatened. Currently, no one is at war, no one deliberately wants war, but by the flow of events that occurred recently, it almost looks as if war is inevitable.
             President Bush is left with the biggest decision of his presidency; will he decide to declare war? Well, as much as Bush would like to take out Saddam Hussein, he first has to convince the Congress that taking Saddam out is the right path. A recent poll by the Pew Research Center showed that 64% of Americans supported the US military action to take out Saddam, but 30% only favored to take actions without the support of allies.
             The debate on Iraq is complicated. After the September 11th incident, the way that people think changed. The Iraq issue also relates to the other axis of evil: Iran, and North Korea. The question is that why would US just invade Iraq but not N. Korea. N. Korea like Iraq has dangerous weapons in its arsenal. Questioning this can also be taken to another step of if US invades Iraq, should it also help the neighboring countries in the name of justice.
             All this talk about war leads to an important question. What does Saddam actually have? We all know that he is a dangerous and evil man, but to what extent do we know him is the question I believe we should ask ourselves. It isn¡¯t a sure fact that Iraq has nuclear weapons like most assumes, however that does not mean that Iraq is not dangerous. Iraq is suspected to also have chemical and biological weapons in its arsenal.
             The issue with Saddam and his weapons goes back to ...