President Bush did not lie. He did not exaggerate and he did not bend the truth.

Bush told the world, through Defense Secretary Colin Powell at the United Nations, everything we knew that wouldn't jeopardize the security of our operatives in the field. That information was compounded on top of years of evidence from multiple inspections and informants in the country.

Bush isn't the first leader to suggest Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction or is a threat to our security.

Bill Clinton said, "The community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to use them or provide them to terrorists. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow."

The demands for impeachment are nothing more than last ditch efforts. Back in December these same people were begging for more time for the inspections teams to root out Saddam's weapons of mass destruction and avoid a war.

Now the war is over, they are the first to question whether any weapons of mass destruction exist there.

Those people claimed a war would kill hundreds of thousands of civilians. That number came in at about 3,500. Surely a great loss, but no worse than a normal month under Saddam ever was.

The voice of reason has triumphed and the people of Iraq are now free. Even if we never find out what Saddam did with his stockpiles of anthrax or long range missiles (which U.N. Chief Weapons Inspector Hans Blix says existed at one point) it doesn't matter.

Iraqi children will never have to go to prison again. Men will never have to watch their wives or daughters raped in front of them. People everywhere will be able to express their beliefs, support and dissent without fear of reprisal.

It's a shame some people hate Bush so much that they would condemn a nation to such ugly conditions just to spite him.

Stephen Duane
electrical engineering senior