It seems that Americans have developed increasingly shorter memories.  People like columnist Steve Chapman (Minneapolis Star Tribune, 5/11/08) want us to believe that the war in Iraq was unnecessary since “In the 12 years after the first Gulf War, we kept (Saddam Hussein) in a box, where he was no threat to us or his neighbors.”

That may be the reality people like Chapman believes.  Or it might be the reality that he and his cohorts want to create so that we lose track of the real truth about the war and the reasons for it.

Perry Nouis, Lt. Col, USAF (retired) noted in a letter to the Minneapolis Star Tribune (5/18/08 that there were many reasons for engaging in a war in Iraq.  First of all, Saddam Hussein was a terrorist and since 9/11 every terrorist needs to be considered a threat.  “Beside his regime paying homicide bombers $25,000 to blow themselves up in public areas in Israel, it also hosted international terrorists, including well-credentialed terrorist Abu Nidal in Baghdad.  Further, the Iraqi military shot at U.S. and coalition aircraft nearly daily as they enforced no-fly zones in northern and southern Iraq…(and) Saddam pretended to have weapons of mass destruction when he did not, and that required us to call his bluff.”  In addition to all this, the United Nations had no interest in enforcing resolutions that they created requiring specific actions by Saddam. 

The United States and its allies had no real choice but to rid the world of Saddam and his ruthless regime.  Yet, these events have been ignored by leftist columnists, the Hollywood elite, and the rest of the liberal fascist movement.

Saying something doesn’t make it true.  Interestingly, people like Chapman are using a ploy long used in Arabic culture: make a statement loudly that is completely false, with a completely straight face, and demand that the lie be taken as truth.  It is an interesting and often successful approach.  People like Chapman dishonor themselves by using it.