July 30, 2004
George Will and WMDs
Conservative pundit George Will remarkably writes today that President Bush:
At least Will is rather consistent on this point. In June 2003, just a few months after the fall of Saddam Hussein, we wrote a piece saying that the "doctrine of preemption -- the core of the president's foreign policy -- is in jeopardy" because of the "failure to find or explain the absence of weapons of mass destruction that were the necessary and sufficient justification for preemptive war."
The problem with this analysis, as I have pointed out before (in fact, around the same time that Will first took his stand), is that Bush is in fact arguing that human rights justified the war. Without WMDs and the al Qaeda threat in Iraq, all that is left to justify taking out Saddam is that he was a bad guy. Bush can't utter the words "human rights" because that would concede that his boys ginned up the intelligence to make a fake case for war, that today rests on the leftiest of all liberal justifications.
Posted by glenn
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