Thursday, May 30, 2002
Paul Wolfowitz
Deputy Secretary of Defense
1000 Defense Pentagon
Washington, DC 20301-1000
Dear Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz,
Wow! You could have dropped a nuke on my head and I wouldn’t have been more shocked (and awed) than what I heard today! Say it isn’t so!
I heard you say that the decision to focus on weapons of mass destruction as the reason to attack Iraq was made for “bureaucratic reasons.” Does President Bush know this? He hates bureaucrats. You said that WMD’s were not the prime reason for the war.
Call me “negative,” but it sounds like you guys decided you wanted to attack Iraq, but you didn’t think any of your reasons were good enough so you made up this weapons of mass destruction story as an excuse. Poor Hans Blix! You had him chasing all over the country trying to find WMD’s, and you were beating him up, telling him and the Germans and the French they were irrelevant...and now you say that all along, the real reason you attacked Iraq was you wanted to withdraw your bases from Saudi Arabia! (?)
Am I missing something? Or (I’m afraid to even say this), did you lie to us? Mr. Wolfowitz, please! We’re grown-ups--we can take the truth. If our president says he wants to go to war with somebody, we’ll go! You don’t have to make up lies or excuses or stories. Don’t insult our intelligence! When you’re ready to invade Iran or Syria or North Korea or whoever is next, just tell us the truth! We don’t care if it’s because of WMD’s or oil or because they beat us in soccer or because they make better champagne than we do. Just say the word and we’re off to war! We’re Americans!
Just level with us, sir.
God Bless America!
Support Our Troops (Give them a raise)!
Sincerely
Carl Estrada
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