John M. Tomaszewski – 10/20/04

This page was last updated on October 20, 2004.

Bush was wrong on war; John M. Tomaszewski; Beaver County Times; October 20, 2004.

This is the third anti-Bush letter from Mr. Tomaszewski since September 12^th.

Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.

“Gen. William Sherman said war is hell. FDR said, ‘I hate war.’ Pope John Paul II said wars bring on future wars.

“Bush’s preemptive war in Iraq was wrong. Bush’s reasoning for this war was Iraq’s possession of weapons of mass destruction. No weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq.”

[RWC] Mr. Tomaszewski, other than Saddam Hussein, please provide a list of people who before the war claimed Iraq was without WMD. I’m sure you’ll remember John Kerry and John Edwards also believed Iraq possessed WMD.

On February 24, 2003, John Edwards said, “I mean, we have three different countries [Iran, Iraq, North Korea] that, while they all present serious problems for the United States – they’re dictatorships, they’re involved in the development and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction -- you know, the most imminent, clear and present threat to our country is not the same from those three countries. I think Iraq is the most serious and imminent threat to our country. … And they do, in my judgment, present different threats. And I think Iraq and Saddam Hussein present the most serious and most imminent threat.”¹ President Bush never said Iraq was an imminent threat, but John Edwards did.

1. CNN Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer; CNN.com; February 24, 2003.