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Monday, March 22, 2004

Former White House Terrorism Chief Richard Clarke Writes His Book

Brad DeLong (Liberal)

So we finally have a rationale for our attack on Iraq.

One proposed rationale--that we attacked Iraq to liberate the Iraqi people and establish democracy in the Middle East--would work fine for a normal American government, but not for this Bush administration that sneered at the idea of "nation building" in 2000 and has dropped the ball so completely in Afghanistan.

A second rationale--that we knew that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and was a threat to us--never made sense.

A third rationale--that Saddam Hussein was allied with Al Qaeda--never passed the laugh test.
But here we have a fourth rationale--"there are lots of good targets in Iraq."
Impeach George W. Bush. Impeach Richard Cheney. Do it now.


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