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Other Real Tragedies

[Editor’s note: Mary’s blogging!]

Some of the other real tragedies of 9/11 as reported by Bloomberg:

  • there were senior members of the Bush administration determined to “get” Saddam Hussein
  • George Bush was looking for just the right reasons to get the goods on Hussein
  • senior officials in Hussein’s own government were secretly hoping to see him fall
  • the ones who would suffer the most from a war in Iraq would be Iraq (at least in the short term)
  • the only justification now for going to war in Iraq is to liberate the Iraqi people, and that is not good enough
  • the secondary reason for going to war in Iraq was to keep the terrorists from coming to America, and that is an unthinkable excuse for putting our own soldiers on foreign soil defending American freedom that increasingly is becoming a memory
  • The biggest tragedy is that we may have created a bigger monster than before. By seeking to fashion Iraq into a maleable tool to be used for our purposes, we may have played right into the enemy’s hands. The Bush plan may backfire. I hope our children don’t have to see the results of that mistake.


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