Tuesday, March 16, 2004
Op-Ed Columnist: Al Qaeda�s Wish List
Op-Ed Columnist: Al Qaeda�s Wish List
When will they stop this foolish talk?
The vast majority in Spain, according to what we saw on TV and read in the newspapers, opposed our invasion of Iraq, and they do so today. That does not mean that they support terrorism or appeasement. It means that they opposed our war in Iraq, pure and simple.
We went to war in Iraq because it had the WMDs at the ready to attack us and the UN was not doing its job of removing them from the country. This was the Bush line from the start of going to war. Now we know that there were no WMD in the country and we also know that the supposed links to terrorist groups was also, at best, a misjudgmentand at worse, a lie.
But what was accomplished by the war, aside from killing hundreds of Americans and a few Spanish soldiers and a few thousand others in the country is to provide yet another reason for those who hate us to go after us and our friends.
What the voters in Spain said was, you lied to us and went ahead with this war. Now we are being attacked at home. So we will vote for a man and a party that will tell us the truth and end our involvement with the Americans in Iraq unless the UN and the rest of the world comes in to clean up the mess that Bush started.
When will they stop this foolish talk?
The vast majority in Spain, according to what we saw on TV and read in the newspapers, opposed our invasion of Iraq, and they do so today. That does not mean that they support terrorism or appeasement. It means that they opposed our war in Iraq, pure and simple.
We went to war in Iraq because it had the WMDs at the ready to attack us and the UN was not doing its job of removing them from the country. This was the Bush line from the start of going to war. Now we know that there were no WMD in the country and we also know that the supposed links to terrorist groups was also, at best, a misjudgmentand at worse, a lie.
But what was accomplished by the war, aside from killing hundreds of Americans and a few Spanish soldiers and a few thousand others in the country is to provide yet another reason for those who hate us to go after us and our friends.
What the voters in Spain said was, you lied to us and went ahead with this war. Now we are being attacked at home. So we will vote for a man and a party that will tell us the truth and end our involvement with the Americans in Iraq unless the UN and the rest of the world comes in to clean up the mess that Bush started.
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