Tuesday, April 8, 2008

17 years of distorted reality

President Bush’s attempts at defending the Iraq war as it reached its fifth anniversary in mid-March were as irresponsible as the reasons he advanced for getting the United States involved in this sorry and costly misadventure.

His defense is inane because his assertions that “successes are undeniable” and that the United States is on the verge of winning something in Iraq lack any sense or logic. Unfortunately, his latest words constitute but one more chapter in the dissembling that began shortly after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and allowed the administration to falsely link Iraq to the attacks, to make preposterous claims about its weapons of mass destruction and to wildly inflate its threat to the United States.

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