Tailgunner Joe takes his shot
Steve Perry CounterPunch
Despite the best efforts of hawks in the Bush administration and the Congress, there is no evidence that Iraq had any part in the September 11 bombings or the subsequent anthrax attacks. No matter. There are still plenty of voices calling for an Iraq offensive. The latest is Senator Joe Lieberman, who wrote in a Monday Wall Street Journal op-ed that Saddam's hordes must be targeted. Lauding the "bright moral line" drawn by the Bush crew, he went on to assert that actual guilt in either attack is a matter of no consequence.
"Whether or not Saddam is implicated directly in the anthrax attacks or the horrors of Sept. 11," Lieberman bleated, "he is, by any common definition, a terrorist who must be removed. A serious effort to end Saddam's rule over Iraq should begin now with a declaration by the administration that it is America's policy to change the Iraqi regime, and with greater financial and tactical support of the broad-based Iraqi opposition. In time, military support will follow."
The situation now is bad enough. Imagine where we'd be if Gore had won. CP
Steve Perry writes frequently for CounterPunch and is a contributor to the excellent cursor.org website, which offers incisive coverage of the current crisis and the only link to a translation page for Al-Jazeera. Perry lives in Minneapolis