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Wednesday, July 09, 2003
posted by gbarto at 10:26 AM:
From the Washington Post:Terry M. Neal: Talking Points
Bush Reverts to Liberal Rationale for Iraq War
Critics Still Oppose War Despite Hussein's Human Rights Record
Hmm. But why didn't the liberals therefore sing Hallelujah that Bush was doing the right thing, if for the wrong reasons, when we started to move on Iraq? To their credit, a handful led by Christopher Hitchens did. But when the Washington Post was seeking liberal commentary on the war, this was not where they typically looked.
What is more surprising in this piece is that it fails to capture the extent to which arguments other than WMD moved the readership of National Review and similar organs on the right to get on board for this war. I do not see many conservatives coming out of the woodwork and grumbling that Bush tricked them into supporting a humanitarian war they would otherwise have opposed. The WMD case was made not for conservatives, nor for liberals, but to get the United Nations out of the way, as I read it. This it accomplished. And a people were freed on the grounds a) of humanitarianism and b) the need to shut down a breeding ground for terrorism. The attacks we're seeing against our troops make it clear Iraq had elements that could and probably would play a role in terrorism in the region if not on a larger scale. In all, we've fought a good war that was worthy of fighting and is worth winning fully by the destruction of Iraqi radicals.
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