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Cheney charges ''willful blindness''
The White House has charged those who oppose military action on Iraq with âwillful blindnessâ to the mortal threat Baghdad poses, and said launching an attack is U.S. President George W. Bushâs decision alone. Amid slipping public support for ousting Saddam Hussein and a growing chorus of skepticism about Bushâs Iraq policy, Vice President Dick Cheney made the administrationâs most forceful case yet for military action. âWhat we must not do in the face of a mortal threat is to give in to wishful thinking or willful blindness,â Cheney said Monday, August 26, in a speech to the national convention of Veterans of Foreign Wars in Nashville, Tennessee.They're being pushed into a position where they're going to have to do something before the combination of the Left and the Soddy lobby has an actual effect on opinion... âWe will not simply look away, hope for the best and leave the matter for some future administration to resolve,â he added, saying that the United States would work with its allies but had a moral obligation to act. Cheney said Washington would pursue thus-far vain efforts to rally its allies and nations in the region behind military action, but hammered home the point that the world cannot wait until Saddam acquires nuclear weapons. The solution to me, old-fashioned as I am, would seem to be to identify the causus belli and call for a declaration of war. Iraq would have the chance of surrendering or fighting. And Iraq's allies could either join in the fight or decide they were neutrals and stay the hell out. But for some reason we don't do declarations of war anymore. Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-08-27 |
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