Want War? Please step into my parlor, akin to the graphic. You will be doing yourself, your country and the world a favor by doing so. You might even get special consideration; people like you often do. What's that? Afraid to do for yourself what you would do to others? Where is that spirit of entrepreneurship, of leading the pack, of being first, of being the individual who only cares for myself? You're selfish at all other times, why not now? What? Afraid of who's going to care for the wife and kids when you're gone? Never worried you before, why now when you can become one of famous by being among the first to die? The first are always mentioned in history books, their names are etched on monuments, and they have streets, towns and even children named for them. So what are you waiting for? Don't you want to be the first one on your block to be put in a box and revered by your family, friends and neighbors? There's no need to fear; when you die, the pain will vanish from your body rapidly. So put a smile on your face, come to see me if you want to go to war and the world will thank you for your decision.

want war? no. need war? yes. in response to want war? see me first, the picture included in the commentary was very graphic. it was probably exactly what the kwuhaiti's saw when iraq invaded them unprovoked in 1990. it was also what the kurds saw when saddam hussein tried to exterminate them. we can thank God we have people that will risk all to stop such murderers. not all people are cowards and will respond to the call to rid the world of dictators. war is a horrible thing and should only be used as a last resort , but apparently saddam hussein doesn't agree

Yes, I especially like to get ignorant people calling themselves patriot, like yourself. In fact, your post shows that you have such a lack of historical knowledge that you probably have no clue as to the meaning of the term you call yourself. Yes, you should come and see me right away before you pollute humanity's gene pool; by doing that, you might then be called a patriot.

JOSE RAMOS HORTA, East Timor's minister of foreign affairs and cooperation, delivers the definitive human rights argument for a US-led war in Iraq:

There is hardly a family in my country that has not lost a loved one.

The United States and other Western nations contributed to this tragedy. Some bear a direct responsibility because they helped Indonesia by providing military aid. Others were accomplices through indifference and silence. But all redeemed themselves. In 1999, a global peacekeeping force helped East Timor secure its independence and protect its people. It is now a free nation.

"Yet I also remember the desperation and anger I felt when the rest of the world chose to ignore the tragedy that was drowning my people. We begged a foreign power to free us from oppression, by force if necessary. "

So I follow with some consternation the debate on Iraq in the United Nations Security Council and in NATO. I am unimpressed by the grandstanding of certain European leaders. Their actions undermine the only truly effective means of pressure on the Iraqi dictator: the threat of the use of force.

If the antiwar movement dissuades the United States and its allies from going to war with Iraq, it will have contributed to the peace of the dead. Saddam Hussein will emerge victorious and ever more defiant.

If we are going to demonstrate and exert pressure, shouldn't it be focused on the real villain, with the goal of getting him to surrender his weapons of mass destruction and resign from power? To neglect this reality, in favor of simplistic and irrational anti-Americanism, is obfuscating the true debate on war and peace.

History has shown that the use of force is often the necessary price of liberation. A respected Kosovar intellectual once told me how he felt when the world finally interceded in his country: "I am a pacifist. But I was happy, I felt liberated, when I saw NATO bombs falling."

Otto Dix created this painting in 1932 titled Der Krieg (The War). Based upon his own war time experiences in the trenches of the First World War, it was Art like this that got Dix in so much trouble with Germany's Right Wing. The work shows the devastation and appalling misery of the battlefield as the Artist remembered it. Dix painted this work using Egg Tempera and Oil on Wood. The painting shows a village shattered and smoldering, trees blasted into splinters, and everywhere... Soldiers, and parts of Soldiers, decomposing in the mud.

The Nazis hated Otto Dix and his fellow Expressionist Artists. The Fascists saw Dix's work as "unpatriotic" and "un-German." The painting show on this page was deemed by the Nazis as a work that undermind "the defense of the nation." Dix came under increasing attack by the Fascists, until he eventually left Germany to escape certain death.

Read the essay I've posted about the German Expressionists, and see their works on my ART FOR A CHANGE website. The German Expressionists should be known by everyone for their heroric stand against Fascism and Militarism.

Soon as USA starts stopping artists from painting reality because it is unpatriotic I also will be rather annoied. But at the moment its Sadam doing those things so it appears he is the greater evil.

(although he may or may not be worthy of bombing.. that mugabe on the other hand...)