“Removing Saddam Hussein from power was the right decision — and this is a fight America can and must win,†President Bush said today at the Pentagon. While acknowledging that there is “understandable debate over whether the war was worth fighting,†he said that our invasion “removed a tyrant, liberated a country and rescued millions from unspeakable horrors.†But wasn’t the purpose of the invasion to eliminate weapons of mass destruction?
Meanwhile, Vice President Dick Cheney continued to defend the invasion as a struggle against terrorism following Sept. 11. “The United States made a decision: to hunt down the evil of terrorism and kill it where it grows, to hold the supporters of terror to account and to confront regimes that harbor terrorists and threaten the peace,†Cheney said Tuesday in Iraq. But didn’t an exhaustive Pentagon review conclude yet again that there was no operational link between Saddam’s regime and al-Qaida?
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