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Cheryl
McElroy
Bush,
Iraq, and Weapons of Mass Destruction
8/18/03
Mr. Rogers:
Your diatribe about President Bush
and the statement about the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction
in the State of the Union Address deserves a response. As
a soldier who recently returned from Operation Iraqi Freedom,
I am well acquainted with the history of the Hussein regime
and the Iraqi Army, as well as the atrocities he and his
cohorts committed during his reign of terror. First, you
need to divest yourself of the notion that the weapons of
mass destruction are a lie. The Kurdish villages of Northern
Iraq would beg to differ with that. Hussein used the chemical
agents Sarin, Cyanide, and Mustard gas to inflict genocide.
Secondly, Hussein was busy establishing ties to the Al Quaida.
Do your homework, professor. Since you feel the need to
accuse the Bush administration of concocting a wild story
about these weapons for what you perceive as a devious plan
to go to war, I will point out these facts.
In an interview with "NBC Nightly
News" anchorman Tom Brokaw, David Kay, a UN weapons
inspector discussed what is being described as a "mother
lode" of documents in Iraq detailing Saddam Hussein's
weapons of mass destruction program. They found damning
evidence of the development and progress of the program
in documents confiscated from Iraqi government buildings.
Because of the lack of enforcement on the part of the UN,
they had 12 years to continue production and development,
and then hide the results. The same concerns about Iraqi
weapons of mass destruction were parroted by none other
than Clinton in his 1999 State of the Union Address: Quote:
"For nearly a decade, Iraq has defied its obligations
to destroy its weapons of terror and the missiles to deliver
them. America will continue to contain Saddam, and we will
work for the day when Iraq has a government worthy of its
people." Instead of criticizing this statement as excuse
to bomb the hell out of Iraq, the media accepted it as the
truth.
And while we're on the subject of
Clinton, did you bother to do a commentary about his eight-year
bout with lies? His Pinocchio-type response to the Monica
Lewinsky affair pales in comparison with his ability to
use the Oval Office as a conduit for illegal, immoral, and
unethical activity. He possessed illegally obtained FBI
files on political "enemies" and along with Al
Gore, kept an alliance with Chinese arms merchants in exchange
for campaign contributions. When confronted about these
transgressions, the Clinton administration lied, covered
up, and evaded the truth like the plague. If I had done
just a fraction of what he did, I'd be occupying a small
cell in Leavenworth.
The statement made by President Bush
was just as true as it is now. In an address to the British
Parliament, Tony Blair said: "In the 1980's, Iraq purchased
somewhere in the region of 200 or more tons of uranium from
Niger. The evidence that we had that the Iraqi government
had gone back to try to purchase further amounts of uranium
from Niger did not come from so-called 'forged' documents,
they came from separate intelligence." Blair is standing
by the intelligence sources. Simply put, President Bush's
statement, which began with the words "The British
government has learned...," is absolutely correct.
Iraq and Afghanistan are not the
only Middle Eastern countries to engage in world-wide terrorism,
but striking back at the operating bases and infrastructures
of these miscreants is a good start.
That, Mr. Rogers, is the definition
of "is."
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