It is a strange phenomenon. Torture chambers have been exposed, horror stories told, hundreds of thousands of unmarked graves have been found, and 25 million Iraqis have been freed from a monster’s grip, yet some people think we have all been duped into a war based on a lie.

The most ardent critics of the war had been speaking of thousands of casualties, some even claimed there would be millions, yet, after the war, they all now claim, “America’s victory was always expected.” However, those same critics are now claiming “America won the war, but lost the peace.”

It is as if America’s stunning military victory is meaningless, and the demise of a brutal dictatorship is pointless.

Whatever reasons were given for going to war in Iraq by the Bush administration were, of course, real. Weapons of mass destruction will be found, and the same peo- ple who decried the administration’s “lies” will simply move on to the next criticism. These critics have no scruples and, therefore, do not feel an obligation to tell the truth and he held accountable for their public statements and pontifications.

What is so interesting is the apparent necessity felt by many political opportunists, including some “independents,” to find “lies” or, at the very least, misstatements made by those in the U.S. government. The drive to find fault with the foreign and military policy of of the Bush Presidency is almost pathological. While it has been said many times, by many people, it bears repeating: Iraq is a relatively large country, with a territorial area as large as that of Germany. Finding weapons of mass destruction, even tons of them, is not very easy if they were hidden by the people who had them.

Starting from the beginning again, Saddam Hussein is gone from power. People are no longer being dragged away in the middle of the night by his henchman and placed into torture chambers. Family members aren’t being whisked away into the night, never to be seen again, because Saddam was angry at some other member of their family. Young girls aren’t being pulled out of class to satisfy Saddam’s son Uday’s sick perversions.

Terrorism was dealt a severe blow, a severe blow in that they no longer have a friend in Baghdad, and there is no fear that they, the terrorists, will get their hands on chemical, biological, or radiological weapons from the political regime in Iraq. Hom- icide bombers are also without additional funding from Baghdad. Yet, many in the world, the U.S.A. included, feel cheated because a motive for the war has not been proven correct yet, even if the war itself was and is ultimately justified.

Then again, there are some in the United States Congress, like Dennis Kucinich, who claim that President Bush not only lied, but the war in Iraq should never have hap- pened in the first place. All the good that came out of the war, all the lives that will not be lost and placed in unmarked graves, all the families that will never have to suffer the torture and degradation under Saddam Hussein count for nothing, because, well, because we haven’t found WMDs just yet. Or, maybe for some, freeing millions of people from a tyrant’s oppression is not justified, being as the liberated people are just Arabs and not Americans. Some Liberals and some paleo-cons (pseudo-Con- servatives) apparently believe that, as long as they are comfortable, the rest of the world can break off and float into space, being as it really is none of our business.

That brings us back to those who claim that the war is just weeks old and the gov- ernment should be allotted more time to find the WMDs before they must come “clean,” as Bill O’Reilly is fond of saying. Apparently those critics have not come “clean” themselves. Why else would they continue to remind everyone who is willing to listen that the government promised us something but did not deliver?

The Bush administration’s most important job is to protect the citizens of the United States of America. They did that, and they continue in that job. No one, not even the French and Germans, thought for a minute that Saddam did not have WMDs. The entire United Nations’ Security Council put into writing their belief that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, drafting and passing Resolution 1441. While WMDs will be found in Iraq,. it just might take a bit longer than the cynics would like.

Wouldn’t it be a pleasant surprise if the same amount of accountability and contrition demanded by the critics of the Bush administration were demanded of the critics themselves? After all, how many employees, other than political pundits and journal- ists, get to stay in their employment if they continue to make mistakes in the very position they profess to have expertise in?

Paul Walfield is a freelance writer and member of the State Bar of California, with an undergraduate degree in Psychology and post-graduate study in behavioral and analytical psychology. He resided for a number of years in the small town of Houlton, Maine, and is now a California attorney. His articles appear in numerous periodicals and on numerous websites. He has been the featured guest on KTSA News Talk Radio.  CONTACT INFORMATION:  Email:   paul.walfield@cox.net

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