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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Alighieri who wrote (170108)5/29/2003 3:27:40 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (2) of 1583147
 
This man should be indicted along with the rest of the criminals in this administration.

US choice of disarmament to justify Iraq was political: Wolfowitz

1) I'm not sure what grounds you think there would be for an indictment. Last time I checked, indictment required evidence of criminal wrongdoing, which your post doesn't provide.

2) It was a correct assessment of the situation that winning the war on terror meant getting rid of Saddam. THIS, AND THIS ALONE, was the basis for the war. The humanitarian reason, great. The WMD, great. All good reasons. But it was about the war on terror, and at no time did the administration in any way back away from that stated objective.

3) If the administration felt it had to pick a subset of the good reasons to try and keep it simple to get the support of the American people, I really can't quarrel with it. There was clear evidence WMD existed, clear evidence of an intent to continue WMD development, etc. But the overriding cause was and was always represented as a war on terror.

The Bush administration discovered long ago that many Americans don't get it unless you repeat it over and over and over again (much as I do with you liberals on this thread<g>). You can't be going through a laundry list of reasons in 5 second soundbites. So, they picked one. I frankly see nothing wrong with it.

The key to understanding and approving of the logic is that Saddam was a horrible dictator who had murdered hundreds of thousands of people and would have continued to have done so. How you can be in disagreement with his removal, for whatever reason and by whatever means, is beyond me.
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