Bush's Latest Rationale
A wonderful letter in Today's Boston Globe. This guy says it better than I could....and he's from Mississippi... Who'dve thunk?
YOU HAVE to give the guy credit. George W. Bush is a genius when it comes to contriving explanations for why we should continue to send our troops into the Iraq meat-grinder. As each rationale collapses, he fills the breach with a new one.
We all know the arguments: Iraq was behind 9/11, had WMDs, was a nuclear threat, Saddam had to be removed, elections had to take place, a constitution had to be written, the Iraqi Army isn't ready to take over, etc.
The latest justification for the war is a real beaut and goes like this: So many soldiers have died so far that we have to ''stay the course" so that their deaths will not have been in vain -- i.e., as people die we have to send others to die to honor them.
The genius of this rationale is that it can be invoked ad infinitum; it remains valid for generations not yet born.
Yes, indeed, Bush is the consummate snake oil salesman, selling death as a justification for itself.
ROBERT R. REGL, Hattiesburg, Miss
We all know the arguments: Iraq was behind 9/11, had WMDs, was a nuclear threat, Saddam had to be removed, elections had to take place, a constitution had to be written, the Iraqi Army isn't ready to take over, etc.
The latest justification for the war is a real beaut and goes like this: So many soldiers have died so far that we have to ''stay the course" so that their deaths will not have been in vain -- i.e., as people die we have to send others to die to honor them.
The genius of this rationale is that it can be invoked ad infinitum; it remains valid for generations not yet born.
Yes, indeed, Bush is the consummate snake oil salesman, selling death as a justification for itself.
ROBERT R. REGL, Hattiesburg, Miss
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