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01-08-2004

Accountability for Dubya’s War

By Jim Revels

As the nation enters the 2004 presidential election season, Dubya’s War will surely spawn debate and
argument. What will probably not be debated is the issue of accountability.

Using spin doctors and skillful political pundits, the Bush administration has staked out the moral high ground
to justify its doctrine of “regime change” in Iraq. Anyone who opposes this doctrine is deemed “unpatriotic.”

The American people have been misled to believe Iraq posed a future threat to our national security.
Accordingly, Dubya said the United States was morally justified to expel Saddam and his gang of evil-doers.

History reveals that other presidents improperly used the moral justification to legitimize imperialism. William
McKinley justified his war with Spain by claiming the moral high ground, spawned by Spain’s brutal treatment
of its colonies. A phantom terrorist act – the explosion that sank the battleship USS Maine in Havana harbor,
later determined to be a coal-bunker fire – was also used to justify the Spanish-American War.

Sound familiar? Spain never posed a threat to U.S. national security either.


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