What they say now:
In an interview in the next issue of Vanity Fair magazine, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz cited ``bureaucratic reasons'' for focusing on Saddam Hussein's alleged arsenal and said a ``huge'' reason for the war was to enable Washington to withdraw its troops from Saudi Arabia.
``For bureaucratic reasons we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction, because it was the one reason everyone could agree on,'' Wolfowitz was quoted as saying.
He said one reason for going to war against Iraq that was ``almost unnoticed but huge'' was the need to maintain American forces in Saudi Arabia as long as Saddam was in power.
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If what Wolfowitz says now is the truth, then the real reasons for going to war were never said by the Administration. They were totally silent on the real reasons. Instead, they figured out what would scare the American people the most, and endlessly repeated those non-factual "reasons". Clearly, they don't trust Americans to come to the "right" conclusion, if they are given the facts. It makes a mockery of "consent of the governed". 100+ Americans, and about 20,000 Iraqis, died.
Our Presidents will keep lying to us, if we keep letting them get away with it. Reagan got away with Iran-Contra. Clinton got away with lying to a Grand Jury. Now, it looks like GW Bush may get away with his bogus WMD claims. |
