It was quite a stretch using selective, simplistic reasoning and convenient hindsight for Alan B. Kerr to blame President George W. Bush for the Mount Vernon bridge collapse in his May 29 letter tirade, “Trillions wasted on destruction.”
Let’s use the same thinking to go the other way: If Bush did not go to war, or if our esteemed Congress had not allowed him, we could easily have a stronger Saddam Hussein, now with weapons of mass destruction, who has returned to Kuwait and either destroyed it or taken it over.
We also could have a much stronger al-Qaida, killing for pleasure, destroying Buddah and other religious statues, oppressing girls and women, attacking ours and other countries’ cities, plus controlling Afghanistan, perhaps Pakistan and other Middle East countries.
They easily could by now have dirty uranium and other biological bombs available or in use. There could be not only bridges but dams, buildings, power plants, subways, stadiums, etc., all collapsed or radioactive. Food and water could be contaminated. There could be greater fear everywhere of flying, traveling, touring, eating, drinking or gathering together. Another ridiculous stretch, perhaps, but you can bet Kerr would be first in line to blame President Bush for not taking aggressive action.
