Time to revisit an inconvenient reality

While deeply at risk of appearing somewhat "bombastic" or the unrelenting purveyor of "baloney," permit me a few lines to revisit an inconvenient reality.

Tired, old "Bush lied, people died" blather carefully ignores the bipartisan intelligence estimates of the WMD threat in Iraq.

A cursory visit to the archives of Lexis-Nexus provides the objective researcher with speeches by John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd, Dick Durbin, Charles Schumer and Hillary Clinton denouncing the dictator in Baghdad as an imminent threat to America's national security.

Heck, even Hillary's husband reiterated unequivocally that the stated foreign policy of these United States consistently called for the ouster of Saddam Hussein.

Just ask CNN. Simply stated, the wrong "cowboy in chief" occupied the Oval Office in 2003 when it became necessary to move decisively in the face of a mealy-mouthed U.N., unwilling to act on its own hollow resolutions.

The real heroes throughout have been our men and women in uniform, who steadfastly defend my priceless freedom to run my mouth off on the opinion page of our local newspaper.

We celebrate their service, honor their sacrifice and pray daily for their safe return.

William G. Parrot

McHenry