Scorecard

Dear Editor:

In defense of their being accused of misleading America into the war in Iraq, either intentionally or unintentionally, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney are pointing out the fact that the Clinton Administration had the same intelligence reports that the present administration had. They are absolutely right. But, in the words of a famous radio commentator, let’s look at “The rest of the story.”

President Clinton and his White House staff were smart enough to search for the truth in the intelligence reports they were receiving about Iraq. They did not invade that country. Mr. Bush and company (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove, Rice, Libby, and Wolfowitz) led us into a pre-emptive, disastrous war in Iraq that still has no end in sight.

Let’s look at the scorecard on America in Iraq:

Clinton: Americans killed-Zero
Americans wounded-Zero
Bush: Americans killed-2,076 and counting
Americans wounded-Over 10,000 and counting.

All this from the “same information” according to Bush and Cheney.