Letter: Rationale for invading Iraq was all wrong

Thursday, Feb. 3, 2005 | 9:18 a.m.

President Bush and his propaganda machine are crowing about the election in Iraq, in spite of the death and permanent injuries to as many as 100,000 Iraqis. More than 1,420 American troops have been killed so far and another 10,000 have been wounded. President Bush has yet to demonstrate that his rationale for invading Iraq was not fallacious.

By all authoritative accounts, his stated rationale for invading Iraq has not stood the scrutiny of experts. They have proven that there were no weapons of mass destruction and that there were no ties between Saddam Hussein's regime and al-Qaida. One can only conclude that his premises were false and that he led the nation into an invalid war -- one that has cost billions of taxpayers' dollars and thousands of lives.

President Bush must be living in a world all of his own. To me, when you put everything together, it sounds like the doctor who reported to the family, "The operation was a success, even though the diagnosis was wrong and the patient died."

RAY HARBERT

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