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January 12, 2005
Oops. No Regrets. Can We Talk About Iran Now?
It was a small item in the evening news. You could have missed it if you went away for a minute or two. They are stopping their "search" for WMD in Iraq. They're acknowledging that Iraq had made no WMD since 1991:
The White House acknowledged Wednesday that its hunt for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction — a two-year search costing millions of dollars — has closed down without finding the stockpiles that President Bush cited as a justification for overthrowing Saddam Hussein. Bush's spokesman said the president had no regrets about invading Iraq. ... Duelfer said then that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction and had not made any since 1991.
That's it. Let's move on. Flip the channel and voila! It's David Kay and Kenneth Pollack on CSPAN talking about the threat posed by Iran and what the U.S. should do about it.
As the peace movement, we have many failings. Failing to stop the war; failing to hold our government accountable for the torture; failing to put withdrawal on the political table...
But this one is inexcusable. Weapons Inspector David Kay and Professional Warmonger Kenneth Pollack are able to show their face in public and talk about Iran. Why haven't we run them out of public life? Why isn't moral outrage enough to at least put the these warmonger apartchiks into the political oblivion they deserve? How come these men are on television pontificating on the very day their lies from the previous war become so unavoidable that they are now part of official history?
Posted by zeynep at January 12, 2005 10:33 PM
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Zeynep,
There you go again, thinking that truth or reality matter. In a very real sense, George W. Bush himself is a figment of our collective imagination. It's all a matter of faith.
I recently finished reading one of the best novels I've read in quite some time: American Gods, by Neil Gaiman. Osama Bin Laden and George W. Bush are gods. Like the gods in that book, they fade away and become irrelevant when people stop believing in them.
Now, I am as confused and depressed as any peacemonger in America. I have no definitive answers. But I do know a little bit about faith, because I live by faith. Ever since I first heard of Mr. Bush the Younger, I have been half out of my mind trying to grasp how any thinking person could believe a word he says.
It is an extremely large, complex puzzle -- like a jigsaw puzzle -- and I believe that God has given each of us a handful of pieces to place (some have bigger hands; some smaller). This means that only by working together can we begin to see the picture.
Here's the part of the picture which I think our pieces reveal: the salient difference between me and the most passionate Bush Christian is that I don't even trust myself, let alone a person in authority.
I may well be totally wrong, but I really do think this is the key, that it all comes down to trust. Most (white) Americans trust (white, male, wealthy) authority figures.
Posted by: Mark Demory at January 13, 2005 12:11 PM