Tuesday, February 10, 2004

By: Winston
2:48 PM - Link this post

MORALLY BANKRUPT ARGUMENTS
To highlight the ignorance and outright lies of the Democrats and other second guessers and monday morning commanders-in-chief, President Bush needs to be, well, more articulate. Here's what he needs to say:

I understand the complaints about the faulty intelligence that said Iraq had stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, and we will do everything we can to make the CIA better at its central mission and to prevent such intelligence failures in the future. Unfortunately, there's nothing we can do about the intelligence agencies of the rest of the world who also concluded that Iraq had stockplies of WMDs. It was that very conclusion, which was reached by Republicans, Democrats, British, French, German and Russian alike, as well as Kofi Anon, that led the U.N. Security Council to unanimously approve Resolution 1441.

Based on the best facts that we and the rest of the world had available, and that we and the rest of the world believed, we took action. No one argued that the intelligence was false or that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction. In fact, by resolution overwhelmingly passed in 1998, the U.S. Congress (including John Kerry) agreed with the Clinton Administration that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and that regime change was necessary.

Those who argued last year that we shouldn't go to war to take down Saddam Hussein never argued against war because they thought the intelligence was wrong. They argued that, despite the presence of such dangerous weapons, they would choose to do nothing.

That's the debate I look forward to in this campaign. Why would you do nothing if faced with facts that were universally accepted? Why would you risk the security of our people? I wouldn't take that risk, I didn't take that risk, and I don't regret any decision I made.

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