Iraq: No reason for hope

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER EDITORIAL BOARD
Thursday, June 30, 2005

The president who expected to win a quick war in Iraq now finds himself having to explain why the U.S. public should support an open-ended military engagement.

It's not an easy task. And it is not one that President Bush has mastered in a way that should erase or ease the growing conviction of many Americans that the war was a mistake from the start.

The lack of substantive justification for the invasion continues to shadow Bush's military policy. Before a select audience at Fort Bragg, N.C., on Tuesday, the president staked his argument around the terrorist attacks of 2001.

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