John Hughes' assertion (April 12) that President Bush did not knowingly lie about Saddam's WMDs may be true, but it misses the main point in the current Iraq/Iran debate — that neoconservative ideology demands the complete social re-engineering of the Middle East by force. The neocons wanted to believe Saddam had WMDs, because such would be a useful selling point for the Iraq invasion. The neocon drumbeat for war and regime change continues with Iran. This philosophy will yet prove disastrous and fatal to a whole generation of American youth.
Lew E. Jeppson
North Salt Lake