If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the politicians, nothing is unsafe.
The Bush administration is at last pushing back against the political untruth that President Bush somehow misinformed us into war in Iraq. The president has delivered two speeches in the past few weeks that take direct aim at those politicians who voted in favor of the war but now claim that the administration duped them into that vote by lying about the intelligence regarding Saddam’s WMD. All of this is to the good, and it’s long past time the administration face up to the issue. A majority of the country now sees President Bush as a dishonest man. The “Bush lied” political thesis and the administration’s lack of a robust self-defense against it are two big reasons why.
The tragedy of the situation is that the administration could prove beyond doubt that it didn’t lie its way into war just by promoting a straightforward Google search (an Internet search engine that The Malibu Times readers have been using to check out my credentials for some time.) Google will take you back in time to 1998, the last time prior to the invasion that the US and Saddam Hussein had a major confrontation. The Google search string Clinton Iraq 1998 will bring up 3.5 million hits about that conflict, during which every prominent politician uttered their belief that Saddam had or was developing WMD and was a threat.
So Google it and prove to yourself whether the Iraqi’s had WMDs. Tell your indecisive acquaintances to Google Clinton Iraq 1998. If you have Bush-hating friends, make them do that search and then watch their world crumble around them.
And that is all I have to say.
Tom Fakehany