Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Strange Reaction to the President's Speech

I watched President Bush's speech on Iraq on NBC. After the speech ended I heard an analyst say that the President had changed the reason that we were in Iraq. Originally it was about WMDs but now it is about keeping fanatics from getting control of Iraq.

Where to begin? The original phase of the war was about overthrowing Saddam Hussein. WMDs entered into it because he had used them before and we were afraid that he would share them with terrorists.

That phase ended within weeks of the initial invasion. It doesn't matter if the WMDs had already been destroyed, shipped to Syria, or whatever. We are not hanging around in Iraq because of WMDs. We are hanging around because leaving right now would be disastrous to Iraq. Iran might take over. Al Qaida might gain control. Civil war might break out. None of these would help keep the country secure.

News analysts must know this. Why would one say otherwise?

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