Weasel words on Iraq

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2088-1669483,00.html


The liberation of Iraq from the murderous dictatorship of Saddam Hussein remains a good deed in a sorry world. As the silent witness of the dead in Srebrenica, Rwanda, Congo, Darfur and Zimbabwe attest there are a lot worse fates than to be saved by western intervention. But while it is one thing to defend the decision to topple Saddam, it is quite another to argue that every course that followed has been right. News reports show the daily horrors of life in the Sunni triangle. Revelations — such as our reporting of the Downing Street memo — have made it clear that the White House and Downing Street were less than frank with the people in the countdown to war. In this climate it is counter- productive to respond with Panglossian assurances that everything in Iraq is now for the best in the best of all possible worlds. The cameras and the documents may not show the whole picture but they do not lie.