Just watched the movie Fair Game about the White House’s leaking of a covert CIA operative in retaliation for the operative’s husband writing an article questioning the data the White House used to go to war in Iraq. I could talk about the movie and the incident but that is for another time.
What got me was the 16 words the President (G.W. Bush) spoke in his State of the Union address that got us into the war in the first place:
Yes it is easy NOW to look back and claim the Bush administration had no right to go to war against Iraq. It is easy to be upset that we were so misled.
But was it a mistake?
Today there are freedoms in Iraq that haven’t been felt before. The people of Iraq are in charge of themselves. They do not fear their government, or oppression. They feel that have a real chance to succeed.
Could those freedoms have ignited the current demands for liberation from other countries in that region? Did liberationists in Egypt look upon what we did in Iraq and begin to wonder if they could bring about similar change in their own country?
Could our involvement in Iraq, regardless of how invalid the original intent was, have begun a worldwide movement?
Of course it doesn’t make much difference. We can not go back and fix or change anything. It is just interesting to question where all these sudden demands for liberation and a better life -more control over one’s own government – where did that REALLY start?
What got me was the 16 words the President (G.W. Bush) spoke in his State of the Union address that got us into the war in the first place:
“The British government has learned that Sadam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.”These words were a lie. Joe Wilson (the one who wrote the article mentioned above) was the man sent on that discovery mission and therefore best qualified to know of this lie.
Yes it is easy NOW to look back and claim the Bush administration had no right to go to war against Iraq. It is easy to be upset that we were so misled.
But was it a mistake?
Today there are freedoms in Iraq that haven’t been felt before. The people of Iraq are in charge of themselves. They do not fear their government, or oppression. They feel that have a real chance to succeed.
Could those freedoms have ignited the current demands for liberation from other countries in that region? Did liberationists in Egypt look upon what we did in Iraq and begin to wonder if they could bring about similar change in their own country?
Could our involvement in Iraq, regardless of how invalid the original intent was, have begun a worldwide movement?
Of course it doesn’t make much difference. We can not go back and fix or change anything. It is just interesting to question where all these sudden demands for liberation and a better life -more control over one’s own government – where did that REALLY start?
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