The Truth Will Out Even When It Relates to Iraq - Even When Mis-described by the President of the United States
                                                                                                                              

Questions and Answers are cited below as

"Q" and "A"

At a variety of times and subjects, Plain Talk has brought out that the Iraq War never should have been waged by the United States.

1. Q: Was there a plausible reason for the United States to wage war with Iraq?

A: Yes. Highly credible U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz (now Chairman of the World Bank) believed that the war was justified by the ferocious cruelties of the Iraq regime perpetrated by dictator Saddam Hussein and his Baath Party which required correction.

2. Q: Does Plain Talk agree with Wolfowitz's assessment?

A: No.

3. Q: Why not?

A: The U.S. continues to deal with many cruel dictators.

It does not deny business with them because of the cruelty towards their own peoples.

4. Q: Does a gradual, hopefully honorable, - withdrawal from Iraq apply to the United States and its collaborators?

A: More than ever before.

5. Q: Why more than ever before?

A: Because it is now revealed, by the disclosures of the Iraqis in framing a constitution as basis for presidential election, etc., that Iraq is way off course.

6. Q: Could you summarize on that?

A: Better yet, I annex "Off Course in Iraq," an editorial from The New York Times, July 21, 2005 edition.

"Most chilling of all are the prospects for Iraqi women," as revealed by the would-be constitution makers. "As things now stand, their rights are to be set back by nearly 50 years because of new family law provisions inserted into a draft of the constitution at the behest of the ruling Shiite religious parties. These would make Koranic law, called Shariah, the supreme authority on marriage, divorce and inheritance issues. Even secular women from Shiite families would be stripped of their right to choose their own husbands, inherit property on the same basis as men and seek court protection if their husbands tire of them and decide to declare them divorced."

7. Q: And is there more?

A: Yes. And it is sufficiently summarized in the annexed article from The New York Times, "Off Course in Iraq."

8. Q: And where is our President in all of this?

A: An adequate summary is provided in the above-mentioned article.

"Mr. Bush owes Americans better explanation for what his policies are producing in Iraq than tired exhortations to stay the course and the irrelevant invocations of Al Qaeda and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Most days, the news from Iraq is dominated by suicide bombers and frightening scenes of carnage. Occasionally, the smoke clears for a day or two to reveal the underlying picture. That looks even scarier."

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