We're a pit-stop on road to a war that may bring us even greater evil

HOW do you prove a negative? How do you satisfy the world that you no longer have weapons of mass destruction, that you haven't been developing a nuclear arsenal, that you aren't fully equipped with the means to pursue chemical and germ warfare?

The answer is you can't. And when the question is posed that way, when the onus of proof is on Iraq to demonstrate that they no longer need to be disarmed, the march towards war seems irrevocable.

The question has been posed that way to enable the US government to justify its actions, and for no other reason. Despite the fact that UN weapons inspectors have yet to report any evidence that would justify a military strike, the propagandists on the American side constantly bombard us with arguments based on the single assertion that Saddam Hussein hasn't proved his innocence, and therefore he and his people must be guilty.