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Tuesday, March 15, 2005
 
What FDR Didn't Need to Say

The Bush Administration's ever-changing rationale for why it went to war in Iraq has gone from the need to protect us from the imminent threat of WMDs to the connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda to the latest, post-hoc explanation that we went into Iraq to spread democracy in the Middle East.

Now, saying in 2005 that we went to war in Iraq to spread democracy and freedom in the Middle East is like FDR saying in 1945 that we entered World War II to stop the Holocaust. Both are noble aims that everyone would support in hindsight, but neither reason had anything to do with why we got involved in those wars in the first place.

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