Anti-war forces right about Iraqi weapons

Baltimore Sun Letter to the Editor January 17, 2005.

The Sun has reported that the Bush administration has finally acknowledged that its chief reason for war was false: There are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (“U.S. ends hunt in Iraq for banned weapons,” Jan. 13).

Anti-war demonstrators around the planet knew the truth about Iraq’s nonexistent WMD arsenals before the war.

So now we are left with the disaster the protesters predicted before the war began.

If the polls can be believed, we were unable to convince a majority of Americans beforehand that the war was being waged based on lies and that the results of the war were going to be disastrous for the United States, Iraq and the world.

By the end of 2004, if the polls can be believed, most Americans finally realized we had been correct all along.

I hope Americans will listen with growing respect to the voices of those of us who have spoken honestly about the war, and with increasing skepticism to an administration that has deceived us time and again.

Dave Goldsmith
Woodstock
The writer is Baltimore County Green Party coordinator.