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7/14
2005
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Washington
the delusions of the administration pol-
he recent "hearing" led by U.S.
icymakers who insisted that, in a world
Rep. John Conyers, D-Detroit,
full of threats, Saddam Hussein was the
on the now-infamous Downing
most dangerous and immediate.
Street Memo quickly turned into farce
A different and convincing kind of
— and worse, farce with ugly under-
case can be made about the administra-
tones of anti-Semitism. And that's a
tion's obsession with Iraq: that it is
shame because the questions ostensibly
proving dangerous distraction in the
up for discussion — before wit-
fight against a terror tide that is
nesses got distracted by the
anything but imaginary. The
always popular "let's blame
ill-planned, perhaps ill-con-
Israel" line — are momentous
ceived war against Saddam
ones.
gravely weakened the U.S. mili-
The question that should
tary and could make it far
have dominated the hearing:
harder to respond to new terror
Did the Bush administration's
threats around the world. The
decision on Iraq compromise
Army can't fulfill recruiting
JAM ES D.
this country's ability to deal
quotas; U.S. stockpiles of
BE SSER
with the terror threat and weak-
weapons are dangerously low;
Sp ecial
en its ability to stem the prolif-
the costs of the war keep soar-
eration of weapons of mass
Com mental), ing, with massive emergency
destruction?
spending bills imposing a huge
Israel has a critical stake in
economic burden on the nation
this debate, but not the one the left-
and compounding the deficit crisis.
wing conspiracy buffs posit. If the Iraq
The flimsy U.S. argument for attack-
war was, in fact, a dangerous distraction
ing Iraq, too, has reduced the list of
from the real issues of terrorism and
allies in the anti-terror fight to a pitiful
proliferation, Israel — on the front lines
handful. The Bush administration may
— could pay the biggest price.
still insist Saddam was the biggest threat
The Downing Street Memo, accord-
in the world, but almost nobody else is
ing to anti-war forces, is the smoking
buying it and, as a result, U.S. credibili-
gun in their argument that the Bush
ty on the issue of terrorism has hit rock
bottom.
administration was determined to go to
war against Iraq's Saddam Hussein from
We claim we are acting to promote
the outset, and that the Sept. 11, 2001,
freedom and democracy, but then
terror attacks and Iraq's alleged arsenal
undercut that by holding hundreds of
of non-conventional weapons were just
Muslim prisoners at Guantanamo Bay,
convenient pretexts. The memo, leaked
Cuba, without even the limited protec-
summaries of meetings of top British
tions of POW status. That decision
officials in 2002, isn't the incontrovert-
could come back to haunt U.S. soldiers
ible proof that the left suggests, but
for generations to come, when their
along with considerable other evidence,
captors decide that international con-
it raises troubling questions.
ventions don't apply, and cite
The problem is that the activists who
Guantanamo to prove the point.
read the most into the document start
with untenable premises — that there is
no real terror threat and that the danger
Still On The Bubble
of weapons of mass destruction is most-
The WMD (weapons of mass destruc-
ly a neo-conservative hallucination.
tion) threat continues to grow by leaps
The delusional left seems to regard
and bounds with a belligerent North
the U.S. misadventure in Iraq as just
Korea already apparently possessing
another case of oil imperialism, or the
nuclear weapons and Iran, with a newly
U.S. quest for world dominance —
elected hard-line government not far
leftover 1960s rhetoric that is unlikely
behind. But our ability to get interna-
to convince the rest of America. Or
tional cooperation in that fight is
anti-war activists weave fantasies about
shrinking, as well.
a cabal of Jewish neo-cons who, putting
The flawed or cooked intelligence
Israel's interests above those of this
that got us into Iraq, and the adminis-
country, pushed a weak president into a
tration's refusal to acknowledge its mis-
war that was not winnable.
takes, provide an easy out for the
Those are delusions as dangerous as
Europeans and others who'd much
rather make big bucks from prolifera-
Correspondent James Besser can be
tors like Iran than take action to limit
reached at jbesser@gmail. corn.
1-888-306-5188
997770