Jacob G. Hornberger of the Future of Freedom Foundation on Moral Responsiblity for Iraqi Graves:
Given the failure of U.S. forces to find Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, the newest justification for the president’s invasion of Iraq has become the mass graves of Iraqis killed by Saddam Hussein’s forces after the Persian Gulf War in 1991. “If we hadn’t invaded,” the reasoning goes, “Saddam Hussein would still be filling mass graves with innocent people and, therefore, the president’s invasion of Iraq was justified after all.”
Those Iraqi mass graves are actually just one more reminder of the moral bankruptcy of U.S. foreign policy and specifically U.S. policy toward Iraq for the past 20 years.
Let’s first keep in mind that U.S. foreign policy called for the active and enthusiastic support of Saddam Hussein during the 1980s, knowing that he was one of the world’s cruelest and most brutal dictators. That support was best evidenced by the U.S. delivery of weapons of mass destruction to Saddam, knowing that he would use such weapons against the Iranian people.
There's really not much for me to say, as Jacob has rehashed many of the same topics I've previously mentioned. Anyway, it was worth saying again as the warrior-cons plan their next big adventure.
This entry also posted at Stand Down.