From EthicsDaily.com:

06-04-03
Eight weeks after the war’s end in Iraq and with no evidence of the alleged weapons of mass destruction, America’s three major newsweeklies featured articles on Monday related to the possibility that the Bush administration either lied about or grossly exaggerated the existence of Weapons of Mass Destruction. | more

Isn’t it a bit scary that now we get to hear ,  in major media outlets,  what we should have been using as a major question causing us to put our collective foot down and say “NO” in the firt place to the “pushing” of an adminstration who will apparently stop at nothing to put  its plans and intentions into motion?

One could read from various sources,  the questions such as “Do we really have enough evidence?”, a nd the best reply proponents of war could give was “You know he’s got to have ’em,  you know they’re hidin’ em’,  and you know he’s willing to use ’em.  What it all amounted to was a massive public propaganda campaign,  utilizing the “anti-terrorist” justification to implement highly ethically questionable (actually,  egregious ethical violations) “pre-emptive” strategies.    Now that it’s “Done”,  and people have apparently been “persuaded” that “Operation Iraqi freedom”  was a “huge success”,  the various media outlets are beating the drum on questions that should have been sufficient to rally more rationality BEFORE our decision to appoint ourselves as the world’s calvary.

I can just hear the magazine editors and newspaper editors weighing the numbers,  and deciding how much pro and how much con inorder to maximize subscriptions and appease advertisers and who knows what else.  What is most disturbing is that it is increasingly becoming apparent that the American public was “sold a bill of goods”.  Perhaps as the American economy continiues to hammer away at us where it hurts, and Bush continues on the Republican mantra “Cut taxes” steadily moves from “military commander hero” to the doghouse just as his father did,  Americans will realize just how rash and impulsive this administration was in their military decisions. 

I hope I’m wrong about the economy.  I hope that something turns around,  even that Bush’s tactics begin to show some signs of providing some stimulus.  But that won’t change my opinion on the larger ethical questions of widely distributed justice isses; on the effects of the taxcuts on the poorer of our nation’s people,  or the effects of the Captain America tactics of the US and the allies it took with them.