David Brooks’ pathetic revisionist history regarding the invasion of Iraq (Opinion, Herald, May 20) would be comical, except for the fact that it parrots and, therefore, lends support to the talking points of current Republican presidential hopefuls.
From aluminum tubes to yellow cake to Saddam Hussein’s alleged ties to al-Qaida and mushroom-cloud fearmongering, the Bush-Cheney lies were on full display in 2003 and cannot be expunged from memory now in the interest of conservative expediency. What rational person thought that executing “shock and awe,” thereby killing 10,000 men, women and children, would be a good idea?
Setting aside the hideous immorality of such a slaughter of innocents, did anybody in the Bush-Cheney administration consider the multiplier effect, i.e., the tens of thousands of family, friends and fellow countrymen of the victims who will, quite reasonably, hate America forever?
Brooks’ attempt to rationalize the decision-making as something other than premeditated deception indicates that he, like Bush and Cheney, is not “learning from mistakes.”
Michael S. Berry
Durango
