Making posters in Fair Park is light years away
from the U.S. threat to bomb Saddam Hussein.
The rhetoric is still going on a little bit
from what I understand,
although it looks good to the prospects for a settlement.
The demonstrators admit the talk of peace
drastically reduced the urgency of their rally.
But the message is the same.
Bombs in Iraq won't hurt Saddam Hussein or his
followers, only the average citizens.
The benefit of the American people and the
benefit of the people of Iraq, the children of Iraq,
they suffered enough. They suffered for a long
time, for seven years.
Mark Seacock teaches American foreign policy at
UT Arlington.
Seacock says the U.N. negotiations gives
America a graceful alternative to bombing Iraq,
but no guarantees of honesty from Baghdad.
Probably continue to play a game where he'll
push the edge of the envelope,
trying to make sure that he's not entirely
trapped into it.
To be free of Saddam Hussein, one protester
says we have to get rid of him.
Mushin Shaboud of the Iraq National Opposition says
Westerners should work to internally overthrow
the dictator.
Helping them by giving them even arms,
intelligent information.
But whatever the outcome with Iraq,
Professor Seacock says the fear over biological
weapons are both real and not likely to disappear.
Cliff Caldwell, Texas News 5.