Re-writing history

A young man stopped by on Friday night. He had served in Iraq. He said that he didn't object to what we peace people were doing, but thought that the Iraqi people needed our help. Whew, that's a serious re-write of history. While this young man may have gone to Iraq to help Iraqis, that was not the purpose of our government. Bush claimed that the Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and that Saddam Hussein was aligned with al Qaeda. Our stated purpose then was to protect our country from these two threats, though we later learned that both were non-existent threats. The young man had overlaid our stated purpose with a new one.