Rose: The White House Lied
By John David Rose
Carolina Morning News
Friday 02 May 2003
"The White House Lied" was the headline on the ABCNews.com Web site on April 25. They
weren't harking back to the days of Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.
Nobody died from Clinton's dalliance or his lies.
The ABC News report reveals a White House so depraved that it makes Clinton seem like a choir
boy.
Wrote ABC News reporter John Cochran: "To build its case for war with Iraq, the Bush
administration argued that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, but some officials
now privately acknowledge the White House had another reason for war - a global show of
American power and democracy."
That poor dupe Colin Powell stood before the United Nations narrating a slide-show of phony
intelligence trying to convince the world that Hussein was a threat.
Was he lying or was he lied to?
"We're not lying," said a White House official to ABC News. "But it was just a matter of
emphasis."
A matter of emphasis? Good lord, it's a matter of life and death!
Tell that "emphasis" story to the families of Staff Sgt. Stevon Booker of Apollo, Pa., Pfc. Gregory
Huxley of Forestport, N.Y., 2nd Lt. Jeffrey Kaylor of Clifton, Va., and Pfc. Anthony Miller of San
Antonio, Texas, all from the Third Infantry Division of Fort Stewart. And tell the rest of the 150
American families now grieving over lost sons and daughters, husbands, wives, fathers and
mothers.
They thought their loved ones were sent to protect America from Hussein's weapons of mass
destruction. Now they learn they died for a "show," a bit of entertainment for Rumsfeld and his
warhawk friends.
This was no fight for freedom or to liberate Iraq. There were no huge stores of weapons of mass
destruction that threatened us.
The United States didn't win a victory, we committed an atrocity.
Writes ABC News' Cochran: "Officials feared that young Arabs, angry about their lives and
without hope, would always look for someone to hate - and that someone would always be Israel
and the United States."
Give Arab youth hope by killing them? Shades of the Spanish Inquisition when people were
"saved" for Christianity by burning them at the stake.
The brutal truth is that American soldiers were sacrificed for nothing that this nation can be proud
of. No amount of White House "spin" or hype can gloss over it.
Congress - all those who voted to give Bush the power to mount an attack on Iraq, Republicans
and Democrats alike - should be outraged at how they were misled and ashamed at what they
allowed to happen.
Every American who did not protest against this war should get down on his/her knees and beg
forgiveness from the parents of those who were killed. We sent their children on a cruel fool's
errand.
We are not naturally a nation of brutish intimidators, attacking anyone who won't bow and scrape
at our command, who don't pray to our particular interpretation of God. But we stupidly allowed
such people into high office and now we and the rest of the world are paying the price.
Bush has got to go. Join those who are trying to retrieve our nation's honor by logging onto
www.VotetoImpeach.Org.
Stop him before he kills again.
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