It's misguided to focus only on weapons of mass destruction

From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI) | Date: June 5, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Thomas L. Friedman

It's misguided to focus only on weapons of mass destruction

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN New York Times

Thursday, June 5, 2003

The failure of the Bush team to produce any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is becoming a big, big story. But is it the real story we should be concerned with? No. It was the wrong issue before the war, and it's the wrong issue now.

Why? Because there were actually four reasons for this war: the real reason, the right reason, the moral reason and the stated eason.

The "real reason" for this war, which was never stated, was that after Sept. 11, 2001, ...

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