Hughes misses the point

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