Setting the Iraq Record Straight
I have been wanting to write an article for a long time about how I felt about Iraq, at the very least to clarify my position regarding the President’s integrity and motivations about the war. But I found this article by Peter Wehner called “Revisionist History: Antiwar myths about Iraq, debunked” (via: Hugh Hewitt) and I don’t think I could possibly write anything better in such a short space that clearly addresses several of the issues that continue to be harped on by those opposed to the war.
Like swallows to Capistrano, they keep returning to the same allegations–the president misled the country in order to justify the Iraq war; his administration pressured intelligence agencies to bias their judgments; Saddam Hussein turned out to be no threat since he didn’t possess weapons of mass destruction; and helping democracy take root in the Middle East was a postwar rationalization. The problem with these charges is that they are false and can be shown to be so–and yet people continue to believe, and spread, them.
Please read the rest of it. It’s definitely worth your time.