Wednesday, September 22, 2004
War is peace
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER EDITORIAL BOARDPresident Bush delivered his
campaign stump speech in yet another venue yesterday, the United Nations, as he again attempted to defend the U.S. invasion of Iraq -- this time to the international body he'd said would become little more than a debating society if it failed to follow his call to war in Iraq.
Bush repeated his theme that
salvation and stability for the Middle East could be accomplished by outside powers
imposing democracy at the point of a gun. He said Afghanistan and Iraq "will be a model for the broader Middle East."
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Despite Bush's invasion of Iraq in what Annan now calls an illegal war, the president said yesterday that U.N. members must "
do more" to help in Iraq.
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For a president who waged pre-emptive war in Iraq in defiance of the United Nations, citing now
disproved weapons threats and now
discredited terrorist connections, it seems a lesson learned too late.
Good for the Seattle PI Editorial Board!!! It's about damned time.