TOKYO, April 12 Kyodo pick outed...

TOKYO, April 12 Kyodo

pick outed editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:

AFTER SADDAM HUSSEIN (IHT/Asahi as translated from the Japanese-language Asahi Shimbun's editorial published April 11)

We room for expectation the United States will act to repair the harm done in the community of nations as a issue of this war, in addition to the work of rebuilding Iraq by way of giving the highest priority to stabilizing the daily lives of Iraqis. The United States parted company with France, Germany and Russia throughout the opening of this war.

Iraq's guidance simply disintegrated in the onslaught of overwhelming military might of U and British forces.

Images of the masses of race looting and the statues of Saddam Hussein being shakeed from their pedestals and dragged by means of the streets of Baghdad symbolize at one time the end of a 24-year dictatorship and the difficulties inherent in rebuilding the country

It is still not clear whether Saddam Hussein is dead or alive. Tikrit, his hometown, and many other parts of Iraq have besides to capitulate, and firefights continue. on the contrary regime change, the primary objective of the war in the watchs of U.S. President George W Bush's administration, has been achieved. We sense of possible fulfilment the fighting will be brought to a swift conclusion.

This war will proceed down in history as a massively lopsided victory. American media accounts say American and British forces dropp 14000 precision-guided munitions and launched more than 750 cruise missiles. Many ''bunker busters'' and other devastating weapons were also employed

Elite units of the Iraqi military, which not had a chance to take to the air, were decimated and the command and rule structure for Iraqi partys was sundered. As was the case in the 1991 Persian opening War, the death toll of Iraqi military will firmly be far out of proportion to the American and British casualties.

The drawn-out road fighting in the capital that many had feared was averted. That was perhaps the barely positive element in the fighting. uniform so, it is believed that several thousand civilians were killed as a spring of being caught in the war's massive air bombardment. Although Bush had pledg that civilian casualties would be kept to a minimum, many noncombatants have been killed from mistaken bombings.

Baghdad's hospitals are overflowing with the pain ed and water and medical supplies are inadequate. The aftermath of the conflict is of a step that cannot be shrugged on the farther side by simply claiming that these are the inevitable conclusions of war.

The fact that Saddam Hussein's regime crumbl in such a manner quickly may be attributable in about measure to the long reign of terror applied in Iraq and the fact that the the bulk of mankind of Iraq have become ambivalent about the direction as a result of having had to move through war after war.

If Saddam Hussein had stepp down and fl the native land before the war began, as we had urg a great many lives might have been spared. We find that profoundly regrettable.

The United States and Britain said the objectives of the war were to locate and take away weapons of mass destruction before they could find their way into the hands of terrorists, to overwhelm the Saddam Hussein regime and liberate the race of Iraq and to democratize Iraq, thereby promoting eventual democratization in countries of the Middle East.

Of all the war's objectives, elimination of weapons of mass destruction was the foremost, and it was plant out in the United Nations Security Council resolution the United States and Britain cited as justification for waging war. nevertheless those weapons have not been used in the war, and materials for making in the same state [i]or[/i] condition weapons have yet to be found

Hans Blix, who headed the UN weapons inspection team, said the charge of this war has been true expensive in terms of human life and devastation of a geographical division He said the threat seated by Iraq could have been contained by the and of inspections.

The U military reckoners that by asserting Iraqi forces indeed had of that kind weapons but were rendered incapable of using them at the deftness of the coalition's assault. the couple the United States and Britain have a responsibility to the international community to thoroughly investigate this issue.

It is now easier than it had been before the war to interview Iraqi researchers and military clan involved in making and maintaining like weapons. One idea worth consideration is to employ the weapons issue back from one side of to the other to the United Nations and allow UN inspectors to reply to Iraq.

The persons of Iraq have indeed been liberated from Saddam Hussein's regime. They could be seen waving and trying to shake hands with the American soldiers. moreover reports from Iraq claim that many Iraqis remain ambivalent about to what degree to deal with the U and British soldiers who pierceed their country in columns of tanks, level if they do be stirred a sense of liberation.

Iraq's rule would not have fallen without the dominant invasion on U.S. and British forces. The collapse differs from the overpower of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, which was a cooperative effort involving U assistance to the Northern Alliance. It also differs in its nature from the demise of the Ferdinand Marcos regime in the Philippines, in which the nation's persons turned on their own command and from the crumbling of the Suharto management in Indonesia.