I would like to respond to Steve McGourty’s July 3 letter, “Bush’s agenda: War was a ploy to get re-elected.” The letter contained three calls to impeach George Bush for manufacturing the war in Iraq to get re-elected.
Here we have a passionate man trying to convey an idea, yet so consumed with hatred and rage for Mr. Bush that it completely overshadows any degree of logic. It’s driven by this same tired, bankrupt political ideology that Americans have come to recognize as void and without substance. We’ve come to realize that lack of leadership is not the same as prudent restraint.
It may come as a surprise that the American public pretty much gave Mr. Bush a blank check to go into Iraq. That country suffered for years under Saddam Hussein. Problems? Yes, there will be problems, but to say the cure is worse than the disease defies logic.
As far as weapons of mass destruction – if you find a mass grave, it’s probably the product of mass destruction. You don’t need a nuclear bomb just to kill innocent men, women and children. The greatest weapon of mass destruction was the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. His methods of delivery were simply his sadistic tools.
Should we just sit back as the most powerful nation on the face of this Earth, enjoy the blessings of freedom and ignore the wholesale slaughter of the innocent and wait for the French to tell us what to do? That kind of attitude and indifference to suffering turns my stomach. And I, for one, would never advocate the concession of our autonomy as a nation and its foreign policy to the influence of world opinion, bought and sold by French, German and liberal English politicians who prostitute themselves on the open market in order to sustain a dictatorship.
Mukilteo
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