Another one of my letters makes it to Opinion Journal. Starting to feel like its all going to be for naught as I don’t believe the Bush administration will ever get the plain fact that the bulk of the US doesn’t care one whit for the UN or its resolutions. The war was justified on the terror ties between Saddam and Al Queda, that was a reason that the US Public could understand and get behind. But with the Bush administration allowing people like Clarke and the Mainstream media to have the floor and not responding in force to those scurrilous attacks by those scoundrels the Bush administration put itself in the position of playing catch up. Sad day.
OpinionJournal - Featured Article Responses: “Terror Links Are Enough to Go to War Pierre Legrand - Baton Rouge, La.
The Bush administration failed to pursue its strongest reason for going to war with Saddam. The ties to terrorism and al Qaeda not the WMDs should have been its focus. While Mr. Bush has been walking out to the edge of the plank looking for the WMDs the Democrats and media have been busy little bee’s sawing off the other end by falsely stating that there were no ties to al Qaeda. The Bush administration believing it had to have the sort of evidence one would bring to court to make any of the serious charges on ties of Osama bin Laden and Saddam decided to not do anything. Nature abhors a vacuum. The Democrats stepped in and defined the terms for them and now it will be almost impossible to make the case for those ties. Had that case been made early with the evidence that is available unclassified they wouldn’t have to worry about the people losing heart in the war, instead they didn’t and now people are starting to believe the nonsense about their being no ties which leads to why are we there.
The WMD violations were always the absolute weakest way to go if you were interested in having the American people behind you. Of course they were effective in bring the U.N. along, big deal. The war will be won or lost on whether the American people understand that Iraq is central the war on terror.
Bring out the evidence, explain to the people that intelligence does not provide you with courtroom quality evidence, but that the evidence of the al Qaeda and Saddam being linked goes back a long way. Then immediately respond to the unnamed sources, the fight for the hearts and minds of the American people is the most important fight yet. Do not allow disgruntled employees to destroy the war on terror.”
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