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Oops! A funny thing happened on our way to Iraq. Somebody moved the goal posts.
For a while, it looked as though the Bush administration would only invade Iraq if Saddam Hussein refused to rid himself of weapons of mass destruction.
But now that Iraq realizes that the U.S. and the UN are serious and has stepped up its compliance, President Bush has started to talk once again about changing Iraq's regime, by invasion if necessary, whether it complied with weapons inspections or not.
That's OK, as long as the White House offers good reasons for the changes, but it is unsettling to hear the reasons keep changing.
It's called "mission creep." It happens sometimes when people ask, "What are we fighting for?" and our national leaders scramble to come up with an answer that sounds attractive enough, even when they haven't worked out many of the details.
Does this mean that the US has been giving aid and comfort to terrorists? Does this mean that George Bush should be removed from power because of his "link to 9/11"? Of course not, but we're about to invade Iraq on evidence that is no less ridiculous.
"A prominent Yemeni cleric apprehended in Germany on charges of financing terrorism used a Brooklyn mosque to help funnel millions of dollars to Al Qaeda and boasted that he had personally delivered $20 million to Osama bin Laden, federal officials said today."
Thursday, March 6, 2003
