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Many in the blogosphere have wondered why Bush hasn’t been speaking out on the benefits to Americans of the successful war in Iraq. This week he made one such speech.
Bush said the Senate report would be valuable in repairing shortcomings in intelligence gathering and analysis. But he stoutly defended his decision to go to war against Saddam Hussein.
“I had a choice to make,” he said. “Either take the word of a madman, or defend America. Given that choice, I will defend America every time.”
At that, 200 Oak Ridge scientists, engineers and technicians gave him a standing ovation.
“Although we have not found stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, we were right to go into Iraq,” Bush said. “We removed a declared enemy of America, who had the capability of producing weapons of mass murder, and could have passed that capability to terrorists bent on acquiring them. In the world after September the 11th, that was a risk we could not afford to take.”
Exactly right. If Hussein had no WMDs, it was for, like, 10 minutes—that is, the brief time we had him under the microscope. He had them before and he could put them together again quickly. The UN itself has declared that before and during the war Hussein ripped up factories capable of producing WMDs and shipped them out of Iraq.
I hope GWB will make more speeches on this subject.
