Helen Thomas -- Don't Applaud Questionable Motives For War

Should critics of the U.S. attack on Iraq hang their heads now that the United States has won the second Persian Gulf War?

Absolutely not!

People who opposed the attack on Iraq never had any doubt that the United States -- the world's lone military superpower -- would roll over a pitiful Third World country. That wasn't the point.

Instead, it was a question of why should the U.S. military kill thousands of innocent Iraqis, maim thousands more and ruin their country to take out one man. All of that, for questionable U.S. motives.