31 August 2010
One Lesson of Iraq is Distortion
Will the members the Bush of Administration never stop rationalizing the Iraq War effort? Stephen Hadley’s brave defense in the August 31, 2010 Wall Street Journal (“The Lessons of Iraq”) wildly distorts the facts.
• The invasion was not effective at stopping Al Qaeda. That terrorist organization will continue to operate wherever it can. It only could operate in Iraq because of the havoc wreaked by the American invasion.
• The invasion wasn’t needed to prevent the development or use of Weapons of Mass Destruction by the Saddam regime. By 2003 the U.N. Sanctions had already made a WMD program much too costly even for Saddam to have continued to pursue.
• The invasion very soon overstayed achieving the objective of eliminating an internationally dangerous dictatorship. If the Iraqi people aren’t capable of governing themselves civilly after their autocrat has been removed from power, subsequent U.S. subjugation has certainly not prepared them for that task.
The only sensible explanations for the Iraq War are the fulfillment of Bush’s private grudge and the self-preservation of the military-industrial complex. Both of them have nearly bankrupted the U.S. and cost us and the world many lives and much misery.
Will the members the Bush of Administration never stop rationalizing the Iraq War effort? Stephen Hadley’s brave defense in the August 31, 2010 Wall Street Journal (“The Lessons of Iraq”) wildly distorts the facts.
• The invasion was not effective at stopping Al Qaeda. That terrorist organization will continue to operate wherever it can. It only could operate in Iraq because of the havoc wreaked by the American invasion.
• The invasion wasn’t needed to prevent the development or use of Weapons of Mass Destruction by the Saddam regime. By 2003 the U.N. Sanctions had already made a WMD program much too costly even for Saddam to have continued to pursue.
• The invasion very soon overstayed achieving the objective of eliminating an internationally dangerous dictatorship. If the Iraqi people aren’t capable of governing themselves civilly after their autocrat has been removed from power, subsequent U.S. subjugation has certainly not prepared them for that task.
The only sensible explanations for the Iraq War are the fulfillment of Bush’s private grudge and the self-preservation of the military-industrial complex. Both of them have nearly bankrupted the U.S. and cost us and the world many lives and much misery.
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