'Chronicle' support of war in Iraq disappoints conservative

From the Thursday, April 10, 2003 printed edition of the Augusta Chronicle (Web posted April 9, 2003).

As a lifelong conservative and former Republican, I must express my dismay as the Augusta Chronicle's support for this disgraceful war.  What started as a legitimate war on terrorism morphed into a war against WMD, and now has devolved into a war to destabilize the Middle East.  This is surely not to the benefit of the USA.

The website of the Carnegie Endowment for Peace has links to the fundamental primary documents behind the hijacking of our foreign policy by a small group of neocon Jews and evangelical Christians to benefit Israel at the expense of American interests, American lives, and eventually American taxpayer's hundreds of billions of dollars.

During the 1980s, two of this group, Richard Perle and David Wurmser, were fired from their government jobs because they were found to be supplying Israel with classified documents.  One wonders why they didn’t get the Jonathan Pollard treatment.  Was it Republican friends in high places?

Readers of this newspaper are led to believe that conservatives universally support the war, but there is a long list of prominent conservatives who oppose this war.  For example, Charley Reese, Paul Craig Roberts, Sam Francis, Scott McConnell, Tom Fleming, Pat Buchanan, James P. Pinkerton, David Boaz, Joe Sobran, and many more.

George W. Bush has shot the Republican Party in the head and the nation in the foot.  I predict that he will be the last Republican President in our lifetimes.  Most of the world opposes this preemptive war because they see it a war of naked aggression, the same kind of war that Tojo and a number of Germans were hanged for after World War II.  Let us hope, for the sake of our country, that the fate of this President and his advisors has a different ending.

Louis R. Andrews