Response to WSJ column

The Southeast Missourian's reprinting of Stephen F. Knott's Wall Street Journal article is designed, as is Knott's 2012 book, "Rush to Judgment: George W. Bush, the War on Terror, and His Critics," to justify the dishonest, costly and disastrous invasion of Iraq carried out by the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz war hawks who in tandem withheld valuable information that would have caused many members of Congress and the American people to protest against such an insane invasion.

In contrast to Knott's revisionist whitewashing, the book to read is Vincent Bugliosi's fact-filled expose, "The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder," a book dedicated to "the thousands upon thousands of American and Iraqi men, women and children who lost their precious lives in the senseless Iraq War, and to the loved ones left behind whose suffering will never end." What Bugliosi demonstrates is that the wrongheaded Iraq War didn't accomplish a U.S. "victory," a stable Iraq or peace in the region, but only an increase of radical Islamic terrorists, billions and billions of dollars of war debt and a badly tarnished U.S. reputation throughout the world.

JOHN C. BIERK, Cape Girardeau