Missed Clues, Dropped balls

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Ever since the first American troops entered Iraq (news - web sites), the Bush administration has had an increasingly difficult time explaining why, exactly, it took the nation to war. None of the various justifications–weapons of mass destruction, ties to terrorism, creating a burgeoning democracy in the Middle East–seem quite as compelling anymore. Even as reports of American casualties continue to filter in from Iraq almost daily, it now appears that the entire case for war was fundamentally flawed.

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With each passing day, and with each life that is lost, it is becoming crystal clear that Bush made a major error with Iraq. His one and only goal was to get rid of Hussein. It worked. However, the costs have been staggering beyond belief.

The madness in Iraq was started by a world leader with nary a clue about the place he was planning to invade. Young soldiers have been thrown into an abyss of death with no end in sight. Why did Bush do this to his own people? What propelled him to start this war? One day Bush will need to supply answers to questions like these.

Hussein had no wmds. This war was predicated on a lie. What a horrible world leader.

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"In a piece earlier this year Max Boot, who describes himself as one of those “dreaded neocons,” argues that there is no such thing as a neoconservative “cabal” that controls US foreign policy. But Jim Lobe, a longtime critic of neoconservatism, writes in Foreign Policy in Focus that the majority of the group’s members “have strongly helped lead the drive to war in Iraq and have long supported broadening President George W. Bush’s ‘war on terrorism’ to include Iran, Syria, and Saudi Arabia, as well.”

Debate would also grow, he says, over the place of the Christian Right, which has championed the neocons’ foreign policy. The other key issue that often draws fire down on the neoconservatives is what their critics describe as support for Israel and in particular the Likud government. Some critics charge that neoconservatives promoted the war in Iraq in order to help Israel, and point to statements made in recent months by former Bush advisers that seem to confirm this.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0723/dailyUpdate.html