Current Events — HabitableZone

Current Events » in reply to Rewriting history

re: Rewriting history

"Geoff, you're restating the WMD argument, but what this is about is the revisionist assertion that that wasn't the reason for war, that actually it was all about installing democracy. "

Who is saying that it is *all about* installing a democracy.
If it was *all about anything* it was getting any kind of leadership [including even Saddam the butcher] that would have followed international law.

And what part of:

"Reality: The President argued the importance of democracy taking root in Iraq before the war began. A February 27, 2003 New York Times editorial shatters the very myth the paper was perpetrating just nine months later: “President Bush sketched an expansive vision last night [in an American Enterprise Institute speech] of what he expects to accomplish by a war in Iraq. Instead of focusing on eliminating weapons of mass destruction, or reducing the threat of terror to the United States, Mr. Bush talked about establishing a ‘free and peaceful Iraq’ that would serve as a ‘dramatic and inspiring example’ to the entire Arab and Muslim world, provide a stabilizing influence in the Middle East, and even help end the Arab-Israeli conflict. The idea of turning Iraq into a model democracy in the Arab world is one some members of the administration have been discussing for a long time.” President Bush’s 2002 State of the Union made the same case…."

Didn't you understand?

Log in or register to post.

The whole thread (28 posts)