Intelligence Failure Took Us To War?

This is my third entry today, and I need to make it short because I really do have a life besides this blog. But I finally just turned to the Op/Ed page and it would be a severe dereliction of duty on my part if I did not note this outrageous bias on the part of the Seattle Times.

I just wrote and fired off this letter to the Times:

Dear Seattle Times:

In the "Newspaper's View" section we have the piece "The Intelligence Gaps That Took Us to War". The title says it all. The Times is apparently outraged about the "intelligence failure that took us to war".

I neither have the time nor the space to list all the reasons we went to war, but suffice to say Iraq's WMD's were only a PART of the overall case. The Seattle Times would have us believe this was the ONLY reason.

Does the Times REALLY believe that Saddam might have tried to nuke us if he had a bomb? I don't. His WMD's were the LEAST important reason for going to war for me. It was his support (financially and in other ways) of terror organizations around the world that scared me the most. THAT was the compelling reason for me. I don't think I'm alone in this assessment.

Sincerely,

Nicholas Tanner
Camano Island, WA