Hartford Courant
March 23, 2008
No weapons of mass destruction to be found in Iraq. No operational link between al-Qaida and Saddam Hussein’s regime. One by one, many of the pillars of President Bush’s reasoning for invading Iraq have fallen, along with Americans’ support for the war.
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But, as Vice President Dick Cheney would say: So? Mr. Cheney, his boss and other supporters of this misbegotten conflict aren’t about to be “blown off course” by the facts.
As the Iraq war marks its fifth anniversary, they are as stubbornly insistent as ever that the war is a righteous cause and, as Mr. Bush said last week, has made the world better and the United States safer.
The world arguably is a better place because a cruel dictator was toppled, captured and hanged. But most Americans understandably think the price is too dear.
As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi observed, the war has damaged the United States’ reputation, strained its military and threatened its economy.
The war’s chief apologists ought at least to answer some pertinent questions as the mission enters its sixth year with growing uncertainty as to how, when or if it will end.
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