Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? George Orwell, 1984 The Bush administration’s public rationale for war was that: (a) Saddam had stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons; (b) he was trying to acquire nuclear weapons; (c) he had ties to al Qa’ida; so that (d) there was a nontrivial probability that Saddam could supply WMDs to al Qa’ida. The Bush administration also hinted strongly that (e) Saddam was behind the attacks on September 11, 2001, with the result that, on the eve of the invasion, half the American public believed this particular bit of nonsense. All of the claims, (a)-(d), were wrong. At least (a) was plausible. The rest were simply fraudulent. These claims were meant to generate support for the Iraq war. But why, precisely, did Bush
"Saddam Must Go"
"Saddam Must Go"
"Saddam Must Go"
Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? George Orwell, 1984 The Bush administration’s public rationale for war was that: (a) Saddam had stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons; (b) he was trying to acquire nuclear weapons; (c) he had ties to al Qa’ida; so that (d) there was a nontrivial probability that Saddam could supply WMDs to al Qa’ida. The Bush administration also hinted strongly that (e) Saddam was behind the attacks on September 11, 2001, with the result that, on the eve of the invasion, half the American public believed this particular bit of nonsense. All of the claims, (a)-(d), were wrong. At least (a) was plausible. The rest were simply fraudulent. These claims were meant to generate support for the Iraq war. But why, precisely, did Bush