WTF Is It Now?!?

Was the war necessary?
James Carroll writes: "When allied warplanes knowingly and repeatedly attacked targets that would kill significant numbers of civilians, only the urgent effort to prevent Hussein's mass-destructive and imminent aggression could have justified such carnage. But now the proffered rationale of necessity is being shown to have been false. The 'preventive war,' as it turns out, prevented nothing... No wonder the dispute won't die. The questions matter too much. No wonder polls are shifting away from Bush.

"Citizens of the United States do not like to think of themselves as wanton killers. No wonder American soldiers in Iraq are openly expressing doubts. A democracy's first requirement of military discipline is the army's belief in the moral necessity of its mission. No wonder, even, pressures of the dispute may have driven one man to kill himself. The issue is mortal: Was George Bush's new style 'preventive' war just another war of aggression, after all?"


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