Another day, another rationale for Iraq war: "President Bush, in his shifting rationales for the war in Iraq, is now justifying it [as]a ... noble mission of freeing 'oppressed people until the day of liberation and freedom finally arrives.'
That was certainly a quantum leap from the simple justification on which he sold the Iraq invasion to the American people. Then the war's rationale was stated as the need to remove the threat of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq that supposedly imperiled the United States and others.
An accompanying rationale for immediate military action was to bring about 'regime change' in Iraq by removing Saddam Hussein, seen as the embodiment of that threat and a cruel dictator who inflicted unspeakable horrors on his own people and neighbors.
... The president's speech was only the latest effort to put the most defensible face on a war whose necessity remains seriously challenged, for which financial support has been granted grudgingly by Congress and both military and financial aid flatly refused by most other major nations.
The question now is whether American voters who were led to believe that the invasion of Iraq was a matter of our national security will accept Mr. Bush's latest characterization of the war "
- posted by geoff @ #