Revising War Justification
Proves Bush and Cheney Lied
February 7, 2004
Revising the Iraq War justifications and using new
reasons to explain why we fought that war means there is something wrong
with the original argument. That argument was that Iraq had WMDs ready to
use at a moments notice so we had to act preemptively to end the threat.
The new justifications show Bush and Cheney as liars
who used their lies to convince Americans and Congress to support a war they
and other neocons started planning in early 2001.
Bush said in an interview taped February 7th for NBC's
"Meet the Press" broadcast on the 8th, "Saddam Hussein was dangerous, and
I'm not just going to leave him in power and trust a madman," and went on to
say "He's a dangerous man. He had the ability to make weapons at the very
minimum."
Cheney echoed a similar message to Republican
supporters in Chicago where he claimed, "We know that Saddam Hussein had the
intent to arm his regime with weapons of mass destruction, and Saddam
Hussein had something else -- he had a record of using weapons of mass
destruction against his enemies and against his own people."
These liars have gone from assertions that WMDs were
ready for use against neighboring countries to Hussein being a "madman",
dangerous and brutal to his citizens. Their current rhetoric does not
validate their original arguments for war.
Bush lied and our soldiers died.
On February 7th in Europe, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld
said, "I know in my heart and brain that America ain't what's wrong with the
world."
He is right. But Bush, Cheney and their neocon
supporters definitely are "what's wrong with the world."