Dear Editor,
In a column over lies of the current Bush administration, the conservative author redirects issues and misleads readers. In Monday's Temporal Front column, several Democratic politicians are compared for their statements of Iraq's supposed WMD to President Bush's Iraqi WMD statements. Fortunately this is not a playground squabble with each side calling the other a liar; this is about the fact that out of everyone that thought Hussein had WMD, it was this administration that brought us to war over these "assumptions." This is not an issue about liars; it is about actions taken on these "lies" or "assumptions," not the speakers of these lies.
I'm not going to turn this into an attack of policies, but if you want to make this issue one of lies, let us look at a couple of statements made by this administration.
During his campaign for the White House back in 2000, Bush promised he would not take our military (the military that Clinton built, by the way) to police foreign lands. Well, that's exactly what he has done in 2003, with 527 American casualties, 2,969 Americans wounded, and an estimated 1,500 Iraqi casualties.
On Feb. 24, 2001, our Secretary of State, Colin Powell, sounded a lot like Vice President Dick Cheney when he stated that Saddam Hussein was exactly where the administration wanted him and used the word "contained." Suddenly after Sept. 11, 2001 and the events that took place here in America changed what was going on, on the ground in Iraq.
Once again this administration, along with its grass roots conspirators, have mislead not only Americans, but also most of the human race as to the issue over Gulf War 2. This is not about "lies," it's about the actions taken on those "lies." Actions like the ones this administration has chosen have cost not only American (and "Coalition") sons' & daughters' lives but also Iraqi sons' and daughters'.
Bradley King
Junior
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