What Bush must do when it’s all over

GEORGE W BUSH said that his war aim is to disarm Iraq and remove any chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. Once Iraq is subdued, he will have achieved this end.

But in the process, he will have made billions of people mad at him. Like battling the Sorcerer’s Apprentice, smashing one danger may only create tens, hundreds, thousands, millions more angry Muslims and Arabs.

The most important resource terrorists have is anger, and anger can only be created by their enemy. If Bush is truthful that his aim is to avoid future terrorism, he must turn over Iraq to the UN or some other neutral body to aid it to become a democracy.

He should support Iraq’s recovery with money only. Once the world sees that he has left Iraq after achieving his stated goal, only then will all nations grudgingly think that the US he has done the right thing.

But if the US stays and awards all the reconstruction contracts to US companies, then the world will realise that Bush’s ideal is not democracy, but oil, and that his true god is Mammon.

Tom Trottier,

758 Albert Street,

Ottawa,

Ontario,

Canada K1R 7V8