As an avid Daily Collegian reader, few letters have boiled my blood the way "Bush needs to accept responsibility for WMDs" (Feb. 10) has. With a statement more left than a Clinton cabinet member, I was baffled by the author's Ted Kennedy-esque rhetoric. To point the finger at President Bush and hold him solely accountable is an illogical, uneducated statement.

To hold Bush accountable is to hold Sen. John Edwards, Sen. Joe Lieberman and Sen. John Kerry accountable. These men all voted "yes" on the resolution of war in Iraq and saw the exact intelligence reports Bush had. Whether they took the initiative to study such intelligence has yet to be established.

Fiery, liberal finger-pointing aside, the issue here is the facts. The hunt for weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) has yet to be completed. Regardless, the world is better without Saddam Hussein in it. While losing American lives is never a popular choice, the numbers pale in comparison to other "revolutions."

Apparently, Hussein's oppressive rule, chemical and weapons tests, his exorbitant purchases of uranium (he wasn't planning to make fancy light bulbs), and his murderous secret police weren't enough of a reason to liberate the people of Iraq.

For a political party so bent on non-partisan appeal, this left-sided finger-pointing is hypocritical, childish and laughable at best.