Even the critics have to admit success in Iraq

To the editor:

The Bush administration is in a lose-lose situation. If it doesn't find weapons in Iraq, then Bush detractors will harp on and on about how the war was unfounded and completely unnecessary. If they find weapons possessed and used by that regime in the past, the "why can't we all get along" group will bring up the hubris of circumventing the United Nations and Bush's blatant disregard for the wishes of European nations.

These same people paint the administration as a group of sinister liars, grifters, braggarts and buffoons who duped the incredibly naive American public into believing that the war was just. They also carry the notion that President Bush merely closed the books on the unfinished business of his father's efforts to stand up to Saddam Hussein's tyranny.

In these cynical times, people are putting a lot less faith and trust in our leaders to do what's best for the safety of this country. These conspiracy theorists on the other side of the fence have to agree, weapons or no weapons, the U.S. got rid of an evil regime and the world is a little bit safer place.

Bush isn't a bloodthirsty warmonger or a politically opportunistic glory hound. Protest for partisan Bush-hating reasons and create the lose-lose situation, but at last tally on the scorecard of being able to rest your head easier on the pillow at night that America and the world won.

TOM EDWARDS

Cape Girardeau