Campaign of contempt
Bush, Cheney stick to their threadbare story
In the face of last week's Senate report and other overwhelming information that the vital underpinnings of Mr. Bush's decision to go to war - Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction and ties to al-Qaida - were, in the event, false, he nonetheless continued to maintain in Oak Ridge that his decision was correct. He does this in the face of a death toll of American military personnel in Iraq standing now at 887, a ruinous drain on the Treasury of $150 billion and rising, and a steady decline in American support and influence among its allies across the world.
He continues to argue that Americans are safer because of what he did in Iraq even though the war has multiplied manifold the number of people who hate the United States across the world, and not just in the Muslim world. Mr. Bush's war in Iraq has, in fact, greatly increased the probability that the country's enemies will carry out another terrorist act in the homeland, perhaps before the elections.
The administration's reported contemplation of postponing the elections, coupled with this election strategy, inevitably raise the question of its intentions with respect to the smooth functioning of American democracy.
He continues to argue that Americans are safer because of what he did in Iraq even though the war has multiplied manifold the number of people who hate the United States across the world, and not just in the Muslim world. Mr. Bush's war in Iraq has, in fact, greatly increased the probability that the country's enemies will carry out another terrorist act in the homeland, perhaps before the elections.
The administration's reported contemplation of postponing the elections, coupled with this election strategy, inevitably raise the question of its intentions with respect to the smooth functioning of American democracy.
- from an editorial in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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