His structures his op-ed according to four commonly held myths:
- The President misled Americans to convince them to go to war.
- The Bush administration pressured intelligence agencies to bias their judgments.
- Because WMD stockpiles were not found, Saddam posed no threat.
- Promoting democracy in the Middle East is a post war rationalization.
He then concludes by saying,
These, then, are the urban legends we must counter, else falsehoods become conventional wisdom. And what a strange world it is: For many antiwar critics, the president is faulted for the war, and he, not the former dictator of Iraq, inspires rage. The liberator rather than the oppressor provokes hatred. It is as if we have stepped through the political looking glass, into a world turned upside down and inside out.
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Listening to President Bush’s speech at West Point, I believe that our president was sounded a bit Churchilian (probably not a word).
He said; I quote
“The U.S. will take the fight against terrorism to every shore and outpost in pursuit of enemies like none before, not relenting until their defeat and showing the same resolve that won the Cold War …
America will fight the terrorists on every battlefront. And we will not rest until this threat to our country has been removed……
Against such an enemy there is only one effective response: We will never back down, we will never give in, and we will never accept anything less than complete victory."
Our President is a man with his hand on the throttle and his eye on the mark set before him. We need to be in prayer that he finds support in the waning years of a presidency which has given him little acclaim, though he deserves much.
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