Logical discontinuities

"…free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don’t attack each other. Free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction." (Quoted in Duckspeak crusader, by Martin Hirst & Robert Schutze. In Overland, 176, Spring 2004, p. 24)

These are the words of George W Bush, at the May 2003 speech declaring the war in Iraq was over. I can only look at these comments and despair. Let’s just think about this. What is the one country which has dropped atomic bombs on another? How many nuclear warheads are now held in readiness by the US? Did they finally find WMD in Iraq? For that matter, who invaded whom?

I have no truck for Saddam Hussein. Despite the threat of misinformation, I still think he was most likely a very bad guy. But, we (the USA, with the willing compliance of the UK and Australia) invaded this country, and it’s clear that many thousands of innocent people have been killed. Are Bush’s words in disjunction with the evidence? I’ll leave you to think further on this.