Iraq War Watch: Debunking Anti-War MYTHS

Saddam Hussein reacts as he responds to chief judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman after Bushra Khalil, the sole woman in Saddam’s defense team was forcibly removed from the court after she clashed verbally with the judge during Saddam’s trail in the heavily fortified Green Zone, in Baghdad, Iraq, on Monday May 22, 2006.

Wall Street Journal: Revisionist History

Iraqis can participate in three historic elections, pass the most liberal constitution in the Arab world, and form a unity government despite terrorist attacks and provocations. Yet for some critics of the president, these are minor matters. 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. Let me examine each in turn:

The president misled Americans to convince them to go to war.

The Bush administration pressured intelligence agencies to bias their judgments.

Because weapons of mass destruction stockpiles weren’t found, Saddam posed no threat.

Promoting democracy in the Middle East is a postwar rationalization.

It is certainly important to DEBUNK these anti-war urban legends.

But, the Bush-hating, BDS Cindy Sheehans and Howard Deans of the world will NOT listen.

They hate Bush.

They hate America….

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