Bush Officials Say Iraq War Worthwhile

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Bush Officials Say Iraq War Worthwhile

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59177-2004Mar15.html?nav=headlines

By KEN GUGGENHEIM
The Associated Press
Monday, March 15, 2004; 3:02 AM


WASHINGTON - Bush administration officials continue to hold out hope that weapons of mass destruction stockpiles will be found in Iraq. But even if they're not, they say, the war to topple Saddam Hussein was still worthwhile.


The war has become a top issue in the presidential campaign. Democrats say President Bush's poor planning and failure to build a broader international coalition have left the United States mired in a conflict with an extraordinary cost in lives and tax dollars.


The CIA's former chief weapons inspector, David Kay, has urged Bush to admit that the intelligence was wrong. But Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld declined to concede the point Sunday, saying 1,200 inspectors are continuing to look for easily concealed weapons in a country the size of California.

Powell had laid out the administration's case against Saddam in a speech before the United Nations one month before the war. Asked on "Fox News Sunday" if he felt responsible for giving bad information, Powell said: "I wasn't giving the world bad information. I was giving the world the information that we had at the time we had it."


Asked on CNN's "Late Edition" if the war in Iraq was worthwhile given that 564 U.S. soldiers have died there, Rumsfeld said, "Oh, my goodness, yes. There's just no question ... 25 million people in Iraq are free."

[BootinUp]

1. How can you say its worthwhile

when it isn't clear how it will even turnout? And why are we footing such a huge chunk of the bill?

[LynneSin]

2. I'm sure there are 550+ American Soldiers who would beg to differ...

....if they could

:cry:

[Miss Authoritiva]

8. Great Hoffmann quote...

Now that so much of the Sixties has been encased in industrial-strength revisionist history, it is very interesting (and enlightening) to go back to the primary documents, like the Port Huron statement and Hoffmann's own words. Those guys were serious thinkers, not wacked-out smelly potheads.

[wallflower2]

3. that's becuase shrubya is a right-wing extremist hawk wacko!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1235133

http://www.almuk.com/obm/index.html

they will go to insane lengths to justify their ends and means.

[m-jean03]

4. Goodness gracious, yes!

Heavens to betsy, yes, of course I'm a sociopathic liar!
:eyes:

[Webster Green]

5. Worthwhile for bu$h and his cronies............

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

6. What else did you think they were going to say... EOM

[Manix]

7. The rants of zealots on a sinking ship. Total denial.

[yellowcanine]

9. They can say it. Doesn't make it so.

As for Rummy's claim that 25 million Iraqis are "free", somebody needs to ask him if he would consider the people of the U.S. to be "free" if the U.S were occupied by a foreign army. But maybe the criteria for being "free" is different if you live far away from where Rummy does and don't speak English.